I don't think the protocols are that similar. Bitmessage is a "eveyone gets every message sent by anyone" type of situation. Bote is a mixnetwork with a dht c

I don't think the protocols are that similar. Bitmessage is a "eveyone gets every message sent by anyone" type of situation. Bote is a mixnetwork with a dht cache. Ricochet is also built on a mix network but with out a dht cache. Pond uses servers.