An application to create private chat rooms and anonymous, the best style of the film action Mission Impossible, they self-destruct in 24 hours, is active from the beginning of the month. The software, called Kumo.chat, allows you to rent a chat room using bitcoins, through the network of the second layer Lightning Network.The application Lightning was launched last November 7 by the developer Stuart Kuentzel, who stated that his intention is to show how simple it is to integrate applications payments with bitcoins using Lightning Network. Kumo.chat is an open source development so that Kuentzel has invited any interested person to contribute in their development or bring ideas from mejora.De according to the information available to Kumo.chat does not keep any records of interactions in any data base, to ensure that the messages will be destroyed along with the chat room, a day after being created. In this way, users do not have to worry about third-party access to conversations are monitored by government or used for the purposes of pernicious.
Really excited to roll out my first lapp https://t.co/VKaQfdr4Ud. Rent shareable, anonymous, self-destructing chat rooms powered by the #LightningNetwork . Messages never saved to DB. Completely open-source. https://t.co/OAzSZYTSpn pic.twitter.com/FBuiI9XA3S— Stuart K (@swkuentzel) November 7, 2019
Kuentzel defines the Kumo.chat, such as chat rooms, shareable, anonymous, and self-destructive driven by the Lightning Network.To create a chat anonymous in Kumo.chat, the user pays a rental of 10,000 satoshis (0,00010000 BTC), which is equivalent to 0.87 u.s. dollars at the current price. In addition, you must set a password, which it will share with the partners who will have access to the room. Only with the password it is possible to join a conversation or see what is being discussed in a particular chat room.In addition, in his Twitter account, Kuentzel said Wednesday 13, added emojis to the chat rooms to make more comfortable the user experience. It was also known that the developers of Spending-Bitcoin, a global directory of businesses that accept payment with bitcoins, already joined Kumo.chat to your listings.A similar application, oriented to the privacy and resistance to censorship, was presented recently by the developer Joost Jager, Lightning Labs. In this case, Jager announced the development of proofs of concept for a use case of the network, Lightning Network, in terms of private messaging decentralised.The application, called Whatsat, you would use the network, Lightning Network of Bitcoin for sending messages without a central authority with the power to limit the interactions. According to its creator, it would be similar to talking face-to-face with a person in private. “We can do this without having to ask permission,” explained Jager.The emergence of multiple use cases and applications driven by the Lightning Network, evidence that the developers did not conform with the use financial of the network, but are going beyond. Currently, the network of micro-payments of Bitcoin, Lightning Network, with nearly 6-thousand nodes with active channels and a routing capability of USD 7 million in bitcoins.