India Targets BitChat Code While Binance Tests Its Own Staff With Fake Hacks

Bitchat Mesh App Defies India Cybercrime Notice After Protesters Use It During Network Restrictions

Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s censorship-resistant, Bluetooth-enabled messaging app, has gone viral again, this time due to the Indian Government trying to get it banned from GitHub. In this latest round of authoritarian measures versus decentralized technologies, Bitchat has won.  In July 2025, Jack Dorsey announced a new messaging application he described as a weekend project. The app, called Bitchat, was designed to work without internet access, pho…

India Targets BitChat Code While Binance Tests Its Own Staff With Fake Hacks

India ordered GitHub to pull Jack Dorsey's BitChat repositories within three hours. Binance revealed it phishes its own employees every month. South Korean crypto trading volume dropped 89% in a year. These three stories, all from Cointelegraph's Asia Express roundup, show how governments, exchanges, and traders are reacting to a fast-changing crypto landscape across Asia.India's Takedown Order Targets Code, Not ContentOn July 23, 2026, India's …