Telebit Enhances Bitcoin Sending Experience With New Android App
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....
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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 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....
Bitcoin company Circle gave a sneak peek of its mobile apps to those who attended the CoinScrum meetup in London yesterday. Company CEO Jeremy Allaire explained to the 170-strong audience that the iOS and Android apps has just entered beta phase, before demonstrating how to use them to make a transaction - instantly sending bitcoin from one Circle account to another. "We are working hard to provide a cross-platform experience that makes it easy for consumers to access bitcoin and experience the benefits of digital currency," said Allaire. "We hope to add iOS and Android native apps to our....
Android wallet users were sent into a panic over the weekend, after Google discovered a flaw in its mobile operating system that rendered generated bitcoin addresses unsafe. According to Mike Hearn, the forum contributor who reported the bug, the way in which random numbers are generated in Android is flawed. Random numbers are used along with a private key to sign a transaction when sending from a bitcoin address. The flaw means that any random number used more than once with the same public bitcoin address enables that address to be compromised. This problem will affect any Android-based....