Bitmessage Independent Security Audit Coming Soon
Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers, which also supports decentralized mailing lists (DML, or "chans."). The concept for Bitmessage was conceived by software developer Jonathan Warren, who based its design on Bitcoin. The open source Bitmessage software was released in November 2012 under the MIT license. There is also a Bitmessage Mail Gateway at bitmessage.ch, but it's not accepting new user registrations at the moment. Also read: Tox: Encrypted Skype Replacement Will Possibly Integrate Bitcoin. Bitmessage....
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