Review: Reveal App Channels SnapChat with a Crypto Edge
Name: Reveal. What it is: A social networking question-and-answer app for mobile. Who's behind it: Led by the former founders of Kindr and gossip website JuicyCampus, Reveal has raised $1.5m from Boost VC and Digital Currency Group, among other investors. Cost: Free. Date launched: 16th June, 2015. Basic summary: Reveal is a SnapChat-like social network that allows users to ask questions and answer via photo or video. The social network uses reveal coin, an asset on the Stellar network, as its "currency of attention", allowing users a means to incentivize interaction. CoinDesk rating:....
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Cryptocurrency-powered social network Reveal has closed $1.5m in seed funding from investors including Mike Hirshland of Resolute Ventures, Boost VC, Digital Currency Group and the Stanford StartX Fund. Founded by Matt Ivester, former CEO of social network Kindr as well as college gossip news site JuicyCampus, and Kindr CTO Josh Beal, Reveal is perhaps best described as a visually oriented, Q&A social mobile app. Like Instagram, SnapChat, Vine and other new social media incumbents, Reveal targets users in high school and college. Unlike these market leaders, Reveal's posts offer a unique....
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Today we’ll bring you news of Snapchat, Paraguay and Bobby Lee. Snapchat Investing in P2P Payments with Snapcash Snapchat, a popular mobile messaging service has announced integration of a peer-to-peer payment system called Snapcash. By partnering with the payment service Square, everyone over eighteen that are located in the US, can connect their debit cards to their account and instantly send money to friends. You just have to type the dollar sign, the amount, and press the new green pay button. When money is sent, it goes directly into your friends bank account. Square has integrated....