Comment by Beretta_Vexee

I'm not against the idea, but it has already been tested with Firechat, Bridgefy, etc. during the protests in Hong Kong in 2019.

It doesn't work very well from a technical and practical point of view. Just having the app on your phone could be enough to get you charged in a totalitarian state.

So it's interesting, but it's not the use case that will democratise this type of ad-hoc network. For example, it is easier to implement end-to-end encryption on an existing infrastructure.

There must be a use case where there is no network connection, enough network participants, and that can accommodate a significant transmission delay.