Nonprofit “Social Wallet” Hopes To Digitize The Wallet, No Fees To Be Charged
CoinTelegraph speaks to Canadian Bitcoiner Kyle Kemper about The Social Wallet, a nonprofit that hopes to digitize every aspect of a physical wallet, money, services, and identity.This is the first part in a series of three articles on the Social Wallet. A wallet that allows social payments. Social Wallet is a tremendous undertaking by its creator, Kyle Kemper, to bring Bitcoin to the masses and create a revolution in both the developing and developed worlds in terms of finance, identity, and information. The project launched on the 4th April and is seeking $21,000,000 in donations to....
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How could social payments reshape our daily habits? CoinTelegraph speaks to Canadian Bitcoiner Kyle Kemper about the Social Wallet, a nonprofit that hopes to digitize every aspect of services. Kyle Kemper, Social Innovator and Founder, says: “Social payments are a whole new paradigm in finance. Also think about all the sites you use: fold, purse, coinbase, bit gold, kraken, online banking, social media, etc. - ultimately you'll be able to leverage their systems, create accounts, and derive value from them without needing to remember a million different URLs and UN/PW combos. With digital....
CoinTelegraph speaks to Canadian Bitcoiner Kyle Kemper about the Social Wallet, a nonprofit that hopes to digitize every aspect of a physical wallet, money, services, and identity. Kyle Kemper: Since this started, so many people have chipped in here and there. Brooks Hunter has been doing videos for 15 years, and was behind that Vimeo video. My friend Paget is a genius creative advertiser, and created the “Turn IOU's into I<3U's" idea along with “friendly finance”. Judd Weiss, John McAfee's VP choice, is a brilliant sales and communicator, and him and I talked for hours in Bel Aire....
Bitcoin start-up Xapo is feeling pressure from the community this week following a string of posts on Reddit.com condemning the company for charging fees - something one would expect any business to do in order to remain afloat. And Xapo has taken the opportunity to go on the record and make clear what's going on with fees and shipping in this blog post, which you can click here to view. On acquiring the card: When we announced the Xapo Debit Card a few months ago, we noted that there would be a one-time fee of US$15 in connection with ordering the card. That is still the case. Users who....
Quickcoin, a San Francisco based startup company has plans on bringing Bitcoin to the mainstream by an online web-based “social wallet” that lets users transact Bitcoin easily. At first, they plan on integrating it with Facebook, to get the most users as if it will go viral; this is where it will most likely happen. Considering Facebook has 1.28 billion users (as of March 2014) Quickcoin will be able to receive a lot of feedback. It does plan on integrating with other services and companies, but that’s for the future. The reason quick coin made this social wallet is to make it easily....
Coinbase will soon be doing away with their $0.15 ACH fee charged on all buys and sells. The fifteen cent fee has long been a point of contention and Coinbase is making the move to bear the cost of interfacing with the legacy banking system themselves. In an Ask me Anything Coinbase AMA on Youtube, Coinbase heads Fred Ehrsam and Brian Armstrong have been asking user-generated questions pouring in from several social media founts. Ehrsam explained: Right now we pay miner's fees for our users. It's kind of the same idea. Most people probably don't want to think about them [the fees]. Also....