It was a dumb enough idea that VC's poured money onto it, that was likely it's only mission given it's asinine architecture.

My first thought was Sphinx. Sounds exactly like it. 

I still lament the lack of information on what us going on with that app. Idk why they stopped selling nodes and stuff. Their blogs were really positive about their vision of future development

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Muyshondt explained two other key differences between BLIP and the now-popular E2E apps setup: everything goes through Lightning and a phone number is not required.

A new user can start using BLIP with an email address and a password. On BLIP’s end, Lightning nodes are leveraged and each new user gets an address , along with a hash file that serves as an account backup file.

I don't know what address means here. It sounds like they centrally host nodes for users that send messages between each other. Or maybe not.

“So [text] goes from your phone with the Hexum encryption to the Lightning network, then to a Hexum decrypting method and then to your phone,” Muyshondt detailed.

Why is it decrypting before it reaches your phone?

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Built On Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, BLIP Wants To Make Your Chats Unstoppable

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> Muyshondt explained two other key differences between BLIP and the now-popular E2E apps setup: everything goes through Lightning and a phone number is not required.

Is this another fork of [Sphinx](https://sphinx.chat/)? 

> A new user can start using BLIP with an email address and a password. On BLIP’s end, Lightning nodes are leveraged and each new user gets an address , along with a hash file that serves as an account backup file.

I don't know what address means here. It sounds like they centrally host nodes for users that send messages between each other. Or maybe not.

> “So [text] goes from your phone with the Hexum encryption to the Lightning network, then to a Hexum decrypting method and then to your phone,” Muyshondt detailed.

Why is it decrypting before it reaches your phone?