These 3 Platforms are Bringing Bitcoin to Social Messaging Apps
Almost everyone with a smartphone now uses a social messaging app. Echo, Telebit, and Octopocket are three newcomers who want to take it a step further by introducing payments and digital currency right into your chat box. Although a lot of people around the world are actively using the Telegram platform on a regular basis, it lacks some features....
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Social messaging applications are playing an ever-increasing role in our daily lives, as we want to be in contact with the rest of the world at any given time. Most everyday consumers have a few different messaging apps on their devices. This growing prevalence of social messaging could be beneficial for Bitcoin adoption. SendChat wants to capitalize on this potential, and has launched a crowdfunding campaign to make its app available for both iOS and Android users. Integrating Digital Currency With Social Messaging. With social messaging becoming more and popular every day, it could prove....
Centralized communication platforms prove to be an easily identifiable weakness in activist movements. The Russian government has cracked down on foreign social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, banning them for extremist activists. For protestors, activists and local civilians, these actions have resulted in a significant barrier to communication with the outside world. Furthermore, they have also raised the question of just how easy of a target these apps are for state authorities. With citizens unable to access these platforms, they have little choice but to flee....
Despite various Telegram bots allowing for Bitcoin payments and wallet service already, this business model hasn't been embraced by more popular messaging platforms just yet. Messaging tools are an interesting area to explore as far as Bitcoin payments are concerned, given the global appeal and reach by both forms of technology. BitPay and Vodi have been thinking along those same lines, and their partnership brings cryptocurrency to messaging tools. BitPay and Vodi Want You to Use Bitcoin. Slowly but surely, instant and social messaging applications are taking the world by storm, as we....
GEMS, the prospective social network looking to be the "Bitcoin of social networks" announced today that they will be utilizing the open-source Telegram app for its Android platform. Upon launch, GEMS users will be able to message users using the Telegram app or users utilizing any third-party messaging apps built on Telegram. Also read: Gems Seeks to Become the Bitcoin of Social Networks. What is Telegram? Telegram is an encrypted chat offers major privacy features for those interested, such as secret chats with self-destruct options. They also allow for enormous group chats of up to 200....
Social messaging is an emerging trend on a global scale. With so many ways of communicating with other people around the world, it could prove to be an interesting way of increasing Bitcoin awareness and adoption. And there are several applications trying to merge the best of social messaging and digital currency into an easy-to-use platform. SendChat is one of those platforms, and they are focusing a lot of providing top notch security. SendChat – Bringing Digital Currency To Telegram Users. When we talk about adopting blockchain technology en masse, there is no better way to show people....