On Monday, September 8, 2025, Nepal youth began protesting on the streets of Kathmandu on Thursday, September 4, 2025, in response to the Nepal government banning 26 major social media platforms.
At the height of the protest, Nepali protesters began downloading Bitchat, a new app created and developed by Twitter/X and Block founder Jack Dorsey and Open-Source developer Calle.
According to data shared by X’s Calle, an app that is a censor-resistant messaging app that leverages Bluetooth Mesh technology and the NoSTR protocol, and that doesn’t even require an internet connection to use, will not even require an internet connection on September 8th.
Vichat allowed protesters to communicate with one another when protesters drove the country’s prime minister (and burned down the country’s parliament buildings).
Lessons for young people in Nepal
The lesson here is that apps like Bitchat are not only important tools to use in intensive communication services in the wake of a blackout, but also help to maintain the right to support a free and open society, not only during protests.
In the modern digital world, not only communication online, but also trading in digital spaces must remain free.
Currently, tools like Bitchat that enable the former should enable the latter immediately, according to a report from Forbes, citing Calle, who expressed the goal of enabling Bitcoin-based Ecash transactions via Bichat in the near future.
By employing Bitchat, Bitcoin, Ecash and Nostr (such as tools such as Freedom Tech Staples), Nepali young people can help prevent the types of power abuse they just protest.
For example, Nostr and the various social media clients built on it cannot be banned or suspended. In other words, the Nepal government would not have the power to take action to raise protests.
Freedom Tech is not just there to help people fight and fight to regain freedom.
This article is a take. The opinions expressed are entirely the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.
Source: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/nepalese-protestors-should-permanently-embrace-bitchat-as-well-as-bitcoin-and-other-freedom-tech
