Facebook Allows In-App Payments to Messenger Chat Bots

Integrating a Bitcoin payment option would give users a choice. In the traditional financial world, this choice is often overlooked by banks. More and more social platforms are starting to integrate payment options. Although this functionality existed on Twitter for some time now, iMessage enabled it as well. Facebook, perhaps the largest social network in the world, will now allow in-app payments to Messenger Chat Bots. All of this seems to be paving the way for Bitcoin payments on Facebook at some point, but is that even realistic? Social messaging platforms have evolved over the years.....

Facebook soon to roll out P2P on Messenger. You can now do much more than chat, like, share and add friends on Facebook. This past Tuesday, Facebook announced that it was introducing a feature in Messenger that would enable users send and receive money. The initial roll-out will be in the United States. And it's going to be free. The first time that you send or receive money on Messenger, you will need to link a Visa or MasterCard issued by a US Bank to your Facebook account. After adding the debit card, you can then create a PIN to enhance security on your account. If you are using an iOS....

Deloitte has used Facebook's recently released Messenger API to build an early version of a product capable of storing warranties on a blockchain and allowing users to buy insurance for items even after they've been purchased. The minimum viable product (MVP), announced today, could serve as a bridge between distributed ledgers and the Internet of Things, but importantly, do so without users having to download any new applications. Deloitte service designer, Frank van de Ven, wrote of the MVP on the company’s site: "It allows users to add information regarding their purchases and....

Earlier today, Andrew Aude, a Stanford Computer Science student, posted to twitter with pictures of Facebook Messenger's new P2P "FB Payments" functionality. Aude and other commentators likened Facebook's new payment system to SquareCash or Venmo. FB Payments has been in the making for a long time and has recently been revamped by Facebook's hire of David Marcus, former president of PayPal. David Marcus is an admitted supporter of Bitcoin and likely played an instrumental role in PayPal's warming up to Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin via Braintree. Since hiring Marcus, Facebook CEO Mark....

Bitwala users can now chat and make payments at the same time on a new messenger designed to improve customer’s experience on the platform. Bitwala is a service which makes bank transfers on behalf of users, who can send money abroad and pay bills with Bitcoin in 17 currencies. It also allows SEPA transfers in Germany, France and the rest of Europe with Bitcoin. Whatsapp for money. With its newly released web app messenger, Bitwala users can interact and send money to each other. "The chat messenger is definitely my favorite addition to the new and improved Bitwala. It’s like Whatsapp....