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Messenger Pigeons Whitepaper

Messenger Pigeons

A privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant and a peer-to-peer mechanism for long-distance messaging

In the era of surveillance capitalism, the inalienable human right to privacy is under threat from unstoppable forces. We need a decentralized system that guarantees privacy by ensuring sovereignty over one's messages and its transit.

Our solutional was to look towards nature. For the longest time in our history, pigeons were used to carry messages as "messenger pigeons" for their exceptional homing ability -- the ability to find its way home over extremely long distances (1,100 miles). Our solution is to breed an army of pigeons, nested over a decentralized network of messaging hubs.The team has released a prototype, codenamed "Birdik"

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