Nepal registered 48,781 Bitchat downloads on September 8 as the protests led by young people against government corruption and social networks intensified throughout the country.
The decentralized messaging application of Jack DORSEY experienced a massive adoption during the civil disturbances that left 22 dead and forced the resignation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.
Citizens run towards peer messaging
The application of equal to equal works completely without internet infrastructure using Bluetooth low energy mesh networks.
Users communicate through encrypted messages that jump between devices within 30 meters ranges, creating censorship -resistant communication channels during network closures.
According to the Bitcoin open source developer “Callebtc”, global discharges reached 125,486 users, and Nepal represents 39% of the total adoption.
Indonesia previously recorded 12,581 downloads during August protests on parliamentary allocation increases and police brutality that killed the Affan Kurniawan delivery driver.
Russia contributed 8,749 downloads, while the United States registered 8,211 users.
Bitchat was launched in Beta on July 7, 2025, filling TestFlight’s capacity in hours.
The application does not require telephone numbers, email addresses or account registration while providing end-to-end encryption through the X25519 key exchange protocols and AES-256-GCM protocols.
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Nepal’s protests began on September 1, aiming at a prohibition of 26 social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
The restrictions aimed to enforce new regulations, but triggered generalized indignation among Gen-Z activists that depend on digital platforms for communication and commerce.
The government raised prohibitions of social networks after intense rejection, but the protests became broader anti -corruption movements aimed at elite political nepotism.
The protesters attacked Parliament, the Supreme Court and the residences of former prime ministers while forcing the resignation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on September 9.
The deployment of the Nepal’s army restored the order in Katmandu when the touches of exchanges were imposed throughout the city.
The crisis represents the worst political disturbances of Nepal in decades, with 22 deaths and systematic demands of responsibility that transcend the concerns of immediate social networks.
Political instability has affected Nepal since the abolition of the monarchy in 2008, producing 13 different governments in 17 years.
Youth unemployment and corruption fed generational frustration, and the phenomenon of the “children of Nepo” stood out as inequality of wealth between political families and common citizens.
Pro monarchies protests throughout 2025 had already created tensions as the realistic feeling capitalized the republican failures of the system.
Great crowds that advocate the restoration of the monarchy collided with the police in separate demonstrations that demand political stability through the return of the constitutional monarchy.
The regional neighbor of India increased border security due to Nepal’s strategic importance and overflow violence concerns.
The Z protesters rejected traditional political figures while demanding fundamental government reforms that address corruption, nepotism and poor economic management through interim leadership.
However, the August protests of Indonesia involved controversies of parliamentary allocation in the midst of economic crisis and youth unemployment.
President Prabowo Subianto replaced the ministers after national demonstrations, caused fires and looting incidents that killed at least 10 protesters.
The decentralized messaging revolution becomes global
Bitchat operates through storage and advance systems, storing messages in cache for out -of -line users up to 12 hours.
Each device works as a customer and server, creating self -organized mesh networks resistant to failure points or centralized attacks.
The messages are fragmented in fragments of 500 bytes, which allows the transmission through multiple jumps of devices with up to seven retransmission points.
General description of the Bitchat architecture. Source: Github
Identifications between random pairs are generated for each session, protecting the privacy of the user while eliminating persistent identifiers such as telephone numbers.
The application presents emergency emergency capabilities through triple touch commands, instantly cleaning local data.
IRC -style command interfaces provide family experiences in the chat room for users who access channels based on issues without internet connectivity.
Dorsy developed the weekend project that addressed disaster coordination, event overflow communication, control of the control point and cross -communication bridges.
Previous adoption peaks occurred during Hong Kong’s protests when a similar application, Bridgefy, saw increases in use of 4,000%.
The adoption of mesh network technology indicates a growing demand for censorship resistant communication tools during political instability.
The main technological companies, including Google and Starlink, have invested in mesh solutions, creating decentralized infrastructure alternatives.
Earlier this year, Elon Musk also announced the XChat development with Bitcoin style encryption and oxide programming language architecture.
The messaging system of the X platform promises Audio/Videollamar Multiplatform without telephone number requirements.
However, despite a clear need, regulatory challenges persist since completely encrypted mesh networks complicate the tracking capabilities of the application of the law.
Decentralized systems resist closing attempts while providing anonymous communication channels during Internet blackouts or government censorship campaigns.
Postal protesters to Nepal resort to the application of messaging in Jack DORSEY pairs to avoid the prohibition of social networks first appeared in Cryptonews.