# Bitchat Mesh App Keeps Running in India After a Cybercrime Notice, Spreading Peer to Peer

The open-source tool works without internet or central servers, and protesters used it during network restrictions before authorities targeted it.

- Published: 2026-07-31T05:29:19.625Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-07-31/bitchat-mesh-app-keeps-running-in-india-after-a-cybercrime-n
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: world
- Sources: [Bitcoin Magazine](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/politics/bitchat-mesh-app-defies-india-cybercrime-notice-after-protesters-use-it-during-network-restrictions)

Bitchat, an open-source messaging app that relays messages device to device over Bluetooth mesh rather than through the internet or central servers, kept functioning and spreading in India after authorities issued a cybercrime notice target…

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