Quote from: Ziploc on May 02, 2014, 09:07:23 AM

Quote from: Turdle- on May 01, 2014, 10:40:27 PM

Hi guys.. been lurking for awhile now. Fairly new to this crypto thing so bare with me.

I feel that the mobile phone apps are the best way for BC to gain traction and expand amongst the greatest population. Nearly everyone in this day and age has a smart phone.

Do you guys know the app Venmo? (If not: https://venmo.com/). It's an app that allows you to connect to your bank account and make and receive payments from friends. For example.. If I'm out getting dinner with friends and someone spots me, I can easily pay the person automatically through the app. It actually works like a charm.

One of the coolest things about this app is that it allows you to store money you have recieved from your friends on the in-app wallet. This money can be left in your Venmo account to pay back others later, which makes it more convenient than having a lot of bank account transactions. These account transactions take a FULL day, at least, to complete.

If someone was able to design an app where we could easily pay our friends with Blackcoin (e.g: "wanna split this case of beer" or "hey, lets split the gas on this road trip") and it was to be paid directly to our wallets I think we would have a potential product that could really catch fire. Especially amongst the younger, college generation. It's super convenient, and still takes out the bank as the middle man!!

Maybe there is some reason why this would not be capable with the way Blackcoin or other cryptos were made... I will admit I have little knowledge of the inter-workings of cryptos. It's a fun idea though.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

-Turdle

That's a very cool idea....can someone with skills pull this out for BlackCoin ?

That is a cool idea. Until that is able to be realised, people can do something very similar with the BC Twitter tipper bot that was made available last week. I've been playing around with it a bit, sending little tips to people who mention BC, to prominent tweeters. A couple of guys are using it as a betting pool, the most recent being betting on what price BC will be at by a cetain date. It's dead simple :

http://bot.blkroad.com/black.html

https://twitter.com/robin_f_hill/status/461888789586399233/photo/1