Girls Want Gems: App Designed to Grow Bitcoin User Base (Op-Ed)
The developers of the Gems app are betting that “female adoption is a key milestone” for Bitcoin to go mainstream. Listen to a group of men talk about Gems and the technicalities of how the app and protocol work, and you’ll hear their excitement about a social app that decentralizes social networking and rewards its users. “Advertising is not the first step in our development. The first step is actually growing the network of users. One of the biggest problems that Bitcoin has is that it’s not appealing enough to women, to ladies. They’re the best adopters of social networks, if you take....
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Originally covered here, Gems is like any other social messenger app, except with a twist. Integrated with Gems is a wallet, that users automatically get. Also Gems is encrypted, ensuring better privacy just like using cryptocurrency for your financial transactions. A: Gems is a Social Messenger integrated with next generation bitcoin technology. Gems offers a WhatsApp style mobile experience with fully encrypted and private messaging, and a built in wallet. Our new introductory video is now live and gives an simple overview of how Gems works: http://vimeo.com/106725097 A: The gems....
A new social messaging app is aiming to disrupt the established social media business model through the power of crypto 2.0 technology. If big social media companies make money by monetizing data, the Gem project asks, shouldn't users also profit from the service? Launching today at Inside Bitcoins Tel Aviv, Gems is seeking to uncover whether consumers can be compelled to change the way they view their relationship with social media, and in the process, embrace cryptocurrency. Though lofty in its ideals, lead developer Daniel Peled told CoinDesk that users should find the Gems social....
Gems wants to disrupt social networking like Bitcoin revolutionized the definition of currency. Gems is a forthcoming social platform that wants to become the "Bitcoin of social networks." Gems plans to achieve this revolution by distributing advertising revenue to users rather than centralized corporations. Moreover, Gems offers users the ability to encrypt their messages to ensure they remain private. Gems launched its cryptocurrency crowdsale on December 1. Also read: Nxtty Releases Encrypted Messaging App for Android Phones. Gems Presale Launches with Goal of Taking Crypto Mainstream.....
Gems wants to disrupt social networking like Bitcoin revolutionized the definition of currency. In the digital age, social networking plays a central role in most people's personal and professional lives. While social networks offer users convenience, they also allow corporations to mine user data and reap immense profits. More troubling is that government can use these networks to spy on their citizens. Gems is a new cryptocurrency-based project that hopes to disrupt social networking like Bitcoin disrupted currency by returning control of the network to users and bringing "cryptocurrency....
Over the past few weeks, there have been a lot of conversations in the world of cryptocurrency about the GEMS project. GEMS brings us the social messaging aspect we have all grown so accustomed to, and integrates it with the power of the blockchain, by offering GEMZ tokens. In order to gain user adoption, GEMS users will be able to contact people who use Telegram, or one of the third party applications built on top of Telegram. GEMS is known for bringing social messaging and digital currency together. By offering a pre-sale of their GEMZ tokens on Koinify, they are not just raising the....