The lead developer is Peter Surda.

   On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 5:07 AM Zenaan Harkness <[1]zen@freedbms.net>
   wrote:

     On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:29:52PM -0000,
     [2]cypherpunk@danwin1210.me wrote:
     > Bitmessage - Anonymous, Encrypted, Secure Messaging, Chans, and
     Broadcasts
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     > There is a uncensorable messaging and discussion network,
     Bitmessage. It
     > is a decentralized and trustless peer-to-peer protocol. It sports
     a slick
     > graphical interface that works like a mail client. The UX is
     snappy and
     > easy even for Grandma. Management of cryptography keys and signing
     is
     > automatic under the hood and is never exposed to the end user. It
     is an
     > order of magnitude easier to use than PGP or GnuPG.
     >
     > [3]https://bitmessage.org
     > [4]https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage
     >
     > Bitmessage works like the old mixnets or remailers but much more
     securely.
     > It is highly resistant to eavesdropping and censorship. The lead
     developer
     > is from the old cypherpunk culture.
     >
     > Bitmessage has several useful features:
     >
     > * Connect via Tor
     > * Anonymous chans
     > * Anonymous broadcasts
     > * Anonymous distributed mailing list repeaters
     > * Private messaging addresses
     > * Automatic management of all cryptography keys
     >
     > You can run bitmessage in a firejail on Linux for extra extra
     security.
     > We've found only one security hole in over six years of
     development, and
     > we're pretty confident that it is very secure "out of the box" at
     this
     > time.
     >
     > If you want to help the network please configure a node to accept
     incoming
     > connections to increase the speed and security of the network
     against
     > traffic analysis. The more peers that accept incoming connections
     the more
     > resilient the network becomes.
     >
     > Please share this resource with all the mailing lists to which you
     are
     > subscribed, with your friends, and on bulletin boards.
     >
     > I hope to see you on the Bitmessage channel, [chan] cypherpunks.
     >
     > To subscribe to this chan in Bitmessage, click on the 'Chans' tab,
     then
     > click the 'Add chan' button, then enter the passphrase
     'cypherpunks' and
     > click OK.
     >
     > The crypto community has been hijacked by shills who try to
     control the
     > discussion and keep people in the dark about the sad state of
     privacy.
     > There are a lot of pro-law-enforcement shills who are trying to
     move us
     > into back-doored crypto. The "leaders" have hidden agendas. They
     keep
     > rolling out broken cryptography full of security holes (how
     convenient),
     > then tell the rest of us to never roll our own crypto (how
     inconvenient
     > for them), that we should put all our eggs in their leaky basket.
     >
     > a old cypherpunk
     On the face of the above marketing, checking all the right boxes -
     that's a good start.
     Needs to be at the top of a few bucket lists to review the
     architecture, compare, etc.
     Thank you for the heads up...

References

   1. mailto:zen@freedbms.net
   2. mailto:cypherpunk@danwin1210.me
   3. https://bitmessage.org/
   4. https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage