Facebook Challenges Bitcoin? Payment Icon Added To Desktop Users
Facebook has continued unveiling its Facebook payments platform, adding the desktop option on Wednesday for many users. CCN reported in March how the social media website had introduced payments on its messenger application, and it seems that today it has rolled out a Facebook chat payment integration for desktop. In March, Facebook announced the introduction of a feature in Messenger enabling users to send and receive money. In order to use this service, you must link a Visa or MasterCard issued by a US Bank. Once a debit card is added, you create a PIN. As CCN has detailed: To send....
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Facebook users will now be able to send money to their friends through the company's messaging app, Messenger. To use the service, the network members will need to connect a debit card or bank account to their Facebook profile. The long awaited app was announced this Tuesday. The app will let users connect their debit card to their Facebook account allowing them to easily send money to other Facebook users. The Messenger app has reshaped its interface and introduced a small "$" icon above which opens the payments tab where users can manage their funds. The app can be used on android....
Facebook soon to roll out P2P on Messenger. You can now do much more than chat, like, share and add friends on Facebook. This past Tuesday, Facebook announced that it was introducing a feature in Messenger that would enable users send and receive money. The initial roll-out will be in the United States. And it's going to be free. The first time that you send or receive money on Messenger, you will need to link a Visa or MasterCard issued by a US Bank to your Facebook account. After adding the debit card, you can then create a PIN to enhance security on your account. If you are using an iOS....
Electrum, Bitcoin's popular lightweight wallet, launched a new version of its software this week. Apart from a desktop client, Electrum 2.6 is now available on Android as well, with an iOS version soon to come. At its heart, the mobile version of Electrum is no different from the available desktop version. The two are fully compatible as well; if the seed from one wallet is imported onto the other, all funds and transactions are synchronized. As such, users don't need to maintain two different balances on their desktop and mobile devices. “The main difference between existing Electrum....
Integrating a Bitcoin payment option would give users a choice. In the traditional financial world, this choice is often overlooked by banks. More and more social platforms are starting to integrate payment options. Although this functionality existed on Twitter for some time now, iMessage enabled it as well. Facebook, perhaps the largest social network in the world, will now allow in-app payments to Messenger Chat Bots. All of this seems to be paving the way for Bitcoin payments on Facebook at some point, but is that even realistic? Social messaging platforms have evolved over the years.....
Facebook announced that its Messenger users will be able to pay chat bots directly from the app, without having to launch third-party websites. US-based Messenger users can already send payments to each other within the app. Until now, however, it wasn’t available for making purchases from online stores. Facebook’s head of Messenger David Marcus....