Line Lite Targets Emerging Markets, Huge Opportunity for Bitcoin Payments
Social messaging applications play an important role in our daily lives, and several companies are targeting developing markets in order to build a large user base. Line, Japan’s most popular social messaging application, has introduced their Line Lite app and made it available to eleven emerging markets. Facilitating payments is just one of the many features available, and Bitcoin could prove to be an interesting candidate. Line – Social Messaging, Mobile Payments & Much More. When people talk about social messaging platforms, the usual suspects such as Facebook and iMessage come to mind.....
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