Bitwala Releases Pioneering ‘Siri For Bitcoin’ Lolabot

Bitwala Releases Pioneering ‘Siri For Bitcoin’ Lolabot

International remittance service Bitwala has released Lolabot, a crypto education tool based on artificial intelligence. It claims this is the world’s first “Siri for Bitcoin.” Lolabot ‘Hopes to Answer Every Possible Bitcoin Question’. Lolabot, named after the Bitwala office’s resident pet bulldog, uses voice recognition and “natural language processing”....


Related News

Bitwala: ‘Nobody Uses Altcoins,’ Bitcoin Is the Top Crypto

Bitcoin payment processor Bitwala revealed on September 8 that even though it accepts 40 altcoins, the startup will focus most of its interest on the Bitcoin network. The firm states while everyone is excited about these technologies “nobody uses them.” Bitwala Says Altcoin Volumes Are Flat. Bitwala announced through its blog that while it will still....

Bitwala Releases App Messenger, Allows Sending Bitcoin via Chat

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....

Apple Patent Reveals Siri-Assisted iMessage P2P Payments Platform

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....

Apple Has Siri, Now Bitcoin Has Lola the French Bulldog

Bitwala has created a virtual assistant called Lola that helps people go around Bitcoin. Lola has been given the shape of a French bulldog and the title of “Chief Happiness Officer.” Users will be able to ask Lola general questions on Bitcoin like; what is the price of Bitcoin, who invented Bitcoin or even ask cheeky questions to Lola about herself. Why create Lola? One of the gravest problems that Bitcoin and indeed other cryptocurrencies face is the lack of public awareness. People either perceive Bitcoin to be unsafe, a gamble or completely are unwilling to use something that they know....

Bitcoin Email Payment Comes To Europe

Bitwala, the Netherlands-based bitcoin payment service, has introduced a bitcoin email payment service called EmailPay. Registered users only need an email address to send a bitcoin payment using the service. Bitwala, which debuted about three months ago, settles payments in EUR in the European Commission's Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). To pay using EmailPay, the user only needs the email address of the recipient and the amount of money they wish to send. Users have to pay Bitwala's 0.5 percent transaction fee. They can send payments up to whatever amount they are authorized.....