On Monday, September 8, 2025, the Nepalese young people began to protest in the streets of Katmandu in response to the main social media platforms of the Nepali Government on Thursday, September 4, 2025.
In the apogee of the protests, the Nepalese protesters began to download Bitcat, a new application created and developed by Twitter/X and the founder of Block Jack DORSEY and the open source developer street.
The application, an application of censorship resistant messaging that takes advantage of Bluetooth mesh technology, as well as the Nostr protocol and that does not even require an internet connection to use, it was downloaded almost 49,000 times on September 8 in Nepal, according to data shared by street in X.
Bitchat allowed protesters to communicate without permission to each other while overthrowing the country’s prime minister (and burned the country’s Parliament building).
The lesson for Nepali youth
The lesson here is that applications such as Bitchat are not only important tools to use following the blackout of centralized communications services and during protests, but are fundamental to preserve the rights that support free and open societies.
In our modern digital world, we must preserve freedom not only to communicate online but also to make transactions in the digital space.
A tool such as Bitchat, which currently allows the first to also allow the second, according to Forbes reports, which cited street, who expressed his goal of allowing Ecash transactions based on Bitcoin through Bitchat in the near future.
By embraceing tools such as Bitchat, Bitcoin, Ecash and Nostr, Freedom Tech Staples, Nepalese young people can help prevent the type of abuse of power against which they only protested.
For example, Nostr and the various social media clients built on it, cannot be prohibited or closed, which means that the Nepali government would not even have had the power to take the action that caused the protests.
Freedom Tech not only exists to help people fight battles to recover their freedom, it is there to help them keep it too.
This article is a Carry. The opinions expressed are completely from the author and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC INC or Bitcoin magazine.