Bitchat Ships Its Source to Radicle's Peer-to-Peer Code Network

Bitchat, the decentralized messaging app that routes chats over Bluetooth mesh rather than central servers, has published its codebase on Radicle. Radicle is a sovereign, Git-based code collaboration network that distributes repositories across a peer-to-peer node system instead of relying on a central host like GitHub, making it a natural home for projects built around decentralization and censorship resistance.

The pairing is more thematic than technical: a communications tool designed to work without infrastructure now lives on code-hosting infrastructure that is itself designed to work without a central authority. For a project whose appeal rests on being hard to shut down or surveil, moving off conventional platforms reinforces that positioning end to end.

Worth noting that the item itself is essentially an announcement — a link to Bitchat’s repository on a Radicle node — with little accompanying detail on motivation, migration specifics, or whether the move is a mirror or a full switch. The significance is in the signal it sends about where privacy-focused open-source projects prefer to host their work.