Telegram Wallet Bot enables users to send crypto in-app via revived blockchai...
More than 550 million active users surf messages on Telegram each month. As told via a Twitter post on Tuesday, instant messaging app Telegram has rolled out crypto payments via Ton Token.To access the feature, users first need to download and install Telegram's official Wallet bot, which allows them to purchase cryptocurrency by bank card, exchange and transfer to other wallets. According to the company, they can then send Bitcoin (BTC) or Toncoin to other users by clicking on the "Wallet" icon in direct messages. You can now send #Toncoin directly within Telegram chats! It’s a new way to....
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Telebit, a bitcoin wallet that allows fast and easy bitcoin transactions to Telegram users, now offers some additional features. Telebit users can now download a companion Android app that offers the ability to send payment requests to other users and integration with Trezor bitcoin wallet, which has added security features. The new Android app marks another stage of Telebit's journey in making bitcoin more user-friendly and widely-adopted, says co-founder Jonathan James Harrison. The new app builds on the convenience that Telebit brought to Telegram users earlier this year when Telebit....
Announced on Twitter on February 11, 2015, Telebit started to gain traction earlier today. Telegram is an instant messaging app for smartphones, tablets and the web. Similar to Whatsapp, the popular instant messaging app acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion, Telegram offers better privacy and security, as well as an open protocol and API. These features have gained Telegram 50 million faithful users. A Bitcoin wallet integrated with Telegram, Telebit allows bitcoin to be exchanged among other Telegram users as well as external bitcoin addresses. "The [Telebit] system has been live....
Former co-Director of SatoshiPoint, Jonathan Harrison, and Eric Goforth of cexstar.io (now defunct), have teamed up and developed Telebit, the bitcoin wallet for telegram. Telegram is an open source instant messaging application that boasts over 50 million users, citing a free privacy orientated, open API, distributed servers, cloud-based messaging application. It is available for Android, iPhone, iPad, WP, web-version, Mac OS X, and PC/Mac and Linux. Users of each now have a bitcoin wallet. You can send bitcoins between phones without the requirement of creating new wallets or bitcoin....
The development of Toncoin, designed to work in conjunction with the Telegram messaging app, has been one for the books. TON, which stands for “The Open Network,” got its own @wallet bot on Telegram’s open WebApps platform back in April, enabling users to transact Toncoin from within the messaging app. The revolutionary development has since then witnessed growth in terms of usage and transaction volumes. This time around, with a significant upgrade, a group of independent TON developers have taken it another step further by launching a fully-fledged cryptocurrency wallet inside the....
The bitcoin industry has witnessed a rapid emergence of startups that have begun to focus on the development of unique social media platform-based applications such as Telebit and web-based platforms including Coinapult and Coinbase SMS, which allow users to send bitcoin to a phone number or a social media account using simple command lines. Since February 11, 2015, Telebit has started to gain traction amongst, privacy-focused cloud-based instant messaging service and platform, Telegram users, by leveraging the popular Telegram messenger app to allow any of the 50 million users to send....