It does signal, that during times of loss of local internetprovision (riots) a bluetooth p2p mesh transmission is crucial. Bitchat has been popularized when Indian government shut down the Internet and faced the fact that the people of the "cockroach" movement made that measure useless.

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The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.