Apple iMessage to Feature Circle’s Bitcoin Wallet in New Update

Anyone with iOS 10 will soon be able to use blockchain payments app Circle to send and receive payments directly within Apple’s iMessage app. Circle for iMessage represents a major step in the evolution of social message payments in the West, similar to what has already happened in China. Circle for iMessage is available from the App Store. Users updating to iOS 10 will automatically have Circle for iMessage. Send And Receive Within iMessage. Users will be able to send dollars, pound sterling, euro and bitcoin to anyone directly inside of iMessage. They will fund payments and cash out....

Just days after Apple issued a directive to Jaxx CEO Anthony Di Iorio to remove Dash from its iOS app, the creators of the universal Blockchain wallet announced the integration of Ethereum Classic (ETC) into its suite of software wallets on seven different platforms. The announcement comes as Apple made its September keynote where the iPhone 7 was unveiled. In the new version of the phone, one of the third-party apps for its iMessage feature will include Circle, the peer-to-peer payments technology company utilizing Bitcoin and traditional fiat currencies. Circle integration. Circle uses....

Blockchain payments firm Circle has integrated with Apple's iMessage, a move that allows users to send payments in dollars, euro, pound sterling and bitcoin through the popular texting platform. Circle executives said the launch marks the end of preparations that began in June, when Apple announced it would open up iMessage to third-party developers. "We decided to jump on it," Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said in an interview. "We had been planning to build out a model for app-less payments using Circle that would work in all the places people communicate and interact."....

Apple has filed a patent application for a “virtual assistant in a communication session.” On first glance, application 14/713,410 might scare developers of chat bots and the like, but Apple is specific in the scope of their claims – Siri, their virtual assistant platform, will be able to directly communicate with either user in an iMessage conversation and then be able to act on the instructions given. The other participant of the conversation will not see messages intended to Siri, nor messages sent from Siri to the user activating her. This is somewhat different from current....

Cupertino, California-based computing giant Apple has released an update to its App Store Review Guidelines that potentially opens the doors for a change in its long-restrictive policies against bitcoin and other digital currencies. The release follows Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC 2014), an annual meetup of Apple developers that was expected to bring notable announcements for the company's customers and wider business community. The update, made under the document's 'purchasing and currencies' section, reads: "Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies....