Octopocket: Where Bitcoin Meets Telegram
The Octopocket team are members of a Bitcoin Association in Spain called avalbit.org. They love bitcoin and do monthly meetups to introduce people to blockchain technology. The project believes that practice is more important than theory, and they want to make their platform as simple to use – and access – as possible. Manual Sales, the system architect at Octopocket said: So simple wallets are welcome by newcomers, people should not be worrying about losing their keys or passwords. Apps are also becoming a barrier for bitcoin adoption – people get tired of using apps for just trying....
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10 March 2016 – Spanish Bitcoin startup Octopocket is enabling Bitcoin transactions in the ephemeral messaging app, Telegram. Their technology works without any additional software, and works through Telegram’s chat interface. Their English support is skeletal at best, and their service isn’t yet live in the US. If you want an early look, you can start a chat with their service by sending a message to @octopocket_bot via Telegram, though. Their interface and service methodology raises some security and transparency questions, as well as being comparatively uncompetitive relative to....
Almost everyone with a smartphone now uses a social messaging app. Echo, Telebit, and Octopocket are three newcomers who want to take it a step further by introducing payments and digital currency right into your chat box. Although a lot of people around the world are actively using the Telegram platform on a regular basis, it lacks some features....
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Telegram took the world by storm when it was first released in 2013. The brainchild of the Durov brothers, the founders of VKontakte (known as “Russia’s Facebook”), the cloud-based app soon became a synonym for secure, end-to-end encrypted messages, and a wide range of channels and user-friendly features. Telegram was an immediate hit and grew […]