[guardian-dev] Bitmessage

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net
Sat May 25 11:55:09 EDT 2013


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On 05/25/2013 12:14 AM, Chris Ballinger wrote:

> https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage

Pretty handy.  Very usable.

> It would be interesting to develop mobile apps for this protocol,
> but running it in the background on mobile devices might be a
> challenging proposition.

Bitmessage would pose a significant power drain due to the
proof-of-work and signature validation subsystems, all of which run
pretty much constantly on traffic in the background.  The CPUs would
never have a chance to HLT.

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