Hey everyone,
I'm currently developing Telegram bot, with wallet functionality + p2p trading (alternative to localbitcoins)
What do you think of this whole thing? Does it worth it?
I've seen Telebit couple years back, how are they doing? Haven't seen much activity there.
I checked Telebit's website, and honestly, it looks awesome. The commands seem easy to use even for a newbie. However, I would be concerned with letting a bot have access to my wallet. You should let the user fully control their own wallet, and the bot would just be a sort of middleman.
Yeah, it was ok, but I guess it's dead now, doesn't respond to any commands.
I agree with you, that controlling private keys is important, but I'm aiming for simplicity, so first version will be with private keys on my server. Anyway we're relying on Telegram security here, they can easily run MITM attack.
Building a bot is not my end goal, it's just a way to start with quite limited attack surface and avoiding the need to design things nicely. Once I get robust API it will be easier to proceed with stage 2.
