Bitwala’s New EmailPay Platform
Bitwala the service that allows EU citizens to pay their bills in Bitcoin has just announced a new feature on their platform. The new ingredient added to the Bitwala program is called EmailPay, a concoction that enables users to send digital currency by email. Anyone with a valid bank account can now receive the virtual money when a registered user gives an email address and the amount owed. The process makes paying bills easier using the currency, and the Bitwala team wants to offer simpler advantages to the community. People who live in the European Union have been able to access the....
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Bitwala, the Netherlands-based bitcoin payment service, has introduced a bitcoin email payment service called EmailPay. Registered users only need an email address to send a bitcoin payment using the service. Bitwala, which debuted about three months ago, settles payments in EUR in the European Commission's Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). To pay using EmailPay, the user only needs the email address of the recipient and the amount of money they wish to send. Users have to pay Bitwala's 0.5 percent transaction fee. They can send payments up to whatever amount they are authorized.....
Bitcoin knows no borders; transactions between geographical borders is the same as making a bitcoin transfer to someone sitting right next to you. There will be no difference in transaction fee or time required for execution of the transaction. This quality of bitcoin is a boon for people who regularly make overseas transfers, especially people employed in different countries who transfer funds back home on a regular basis or those who keep travelling on work and have to take care of their utility bills etc. back home while on a trip. Bitwala, a bitcoin startup is leveraging upon this....
Bitwala customers will receive fee-free bitcoin transactions for the next two weeks in celebration of the payment service having logged 2 million transactions in one year. Starting Monday, Bitwala will waive its 0.5% fee. Users can redeem Bitwala’s fee-free offer until March 28 with the code: THANKYOU. Bitwala launched as Europe’s first bill payment service that allows users to pay bills with bitcoin. The service makes it possible to to use bitcoin for paying for anything from credit card bills to utilities. Bitcoin owners can pay fiat bills without having to use an exchange. Users can pay....
Bitwala users can now chat and make payments at the same time on a new messenger designed to improve customer’s experience on the platform. Bitwala is a service which makes bank transfers on behalf of users, who can send money abroad and pay bills with Bitcoin in 17 currencies. It also allows SEPA transfers in Germany, France and the rest of Europe with Bitcoin. Whatsapp for money. With its newly released web app messenger, Bitwala users can interact and send money to each other. "The chat messenger is definitely my favorite addition to the new and improved Bitwala. It’s like Whatsapp....
Bitwala has raised €800,000 (about $910,000 at press time) to expand its online bitcoin payment service and grow its customer base and operations team. Investors in the round included High-Tech-Gründerfonds (HTGF), KfW Banking Group and Digital Currency Group. Deutsche Post DHL, Deutsche Telekom and RWE also participated in the round. In a blog post, the startup sought to downplay the significance of its new capital, choosing instead to emphasize its dedication to its service and customers. Bitwala’s Andrea Hesler wrote: "It is not only about the amount we raised, it is also about....