Wiper Messaging Offers Bitcoin Payments To Filmmakers
Could mobile messaging be the next big screen? With a little help from bitcoin, perhaps. Wiper, an encrypted mobile messaging app with a built-in bitcoin wallet, has released a new functionality called Wiper Film that allows users to view films and allows online digital content providers to monetize their content by accepting bitcoin, according to Nasdaq. For $4.99 a month, a user can have access to hundreds of independent films. The Wiper website notes that many filmmakers do not have the right tools to develop an audience. Audiences, for their part, spend more time trying to find a movie....
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Wiper is an encrypted mobile messenger with a built-in Bitcoin wallet that allows users to send and receive Bitcoin instantaneously, directly from the mobile application. Using its Bitcoin wallet, Wiper recently launched a new functionality called Wiper Film to help filmmakers and online digital content providers monetize their content and maximize their profit with Bitcoin micropayments. The company had previously raised $2.5 million in seed funding from sole investor and Intermedia and Unison founder Michael Choupak, to develop a unique set of cryptographic functionalities which encrypts....
Wiper, a free messaging app that features the ability to instantly erase messages, has integrated a bitcoin wallet. The ability for users to send and receive bitcoin makes Wiper the first messaging app to integrate cryptocurrency, according to CEO Manlio Carrelli. "Payments make a lot of sense in a messenger". He points to Snapchat's integration of Square as a mobile messaging service that offers payment capability. That service, called Snapcash, requires both parties to the transaction to have an account with a financial institution such as a bank or a debit card company. Wiper, on the....
Messaging could be the logical starting point for digital currency adoption, according to the CEO of bitcoin-enabled chat app Wiper. In an interview with CoinDesk, Manlion Carelli praised bitcoin's "amazing" promise but said the currency remains difficult for beginners to use. "Wiper's goal is to make it more accessible to even first time smartphone users, so that its promise can be realised," he added. Launched in 2014, Wiper is part of a new wave of ephemeral messaging services that allow users to erase, or 'wipe' their conversations. The app also offers encrypted messages and phone....
China's App Store has banned Wiper, the mobile messaging service that allows users to delete messages, after it added the ability to send bitcoin. Wiper announced its bitcoin functionality slightly more than a month ago. "We were removed from the iOS online app store in China due to violating that app store's policies." Manlio Carelli, Wiper's CEO, told CCN. "A rep from Apple explained to us by phone that this violation was related to Wiper enabling bitcoin payments." Wiper contacted Apple after receiving a removal notice through its iTunes Connect developer account. "We received a very....
Messaging service Wiper has been removed from China's iOS App Store after it enabled bitcoin payments between users. Wiper CEO Manlion Carelli confirmed the news, explaining to CoinDesk that the removal was a direct result of its bitcoin integration, which happened earlier this month. He said: We were removed from the iOS App Store in China due to violating that App Store's policies. Apple explained to us by phone that this violation was related to Wiper enabling bitcoin payments.