Topic: SendChat Messaging App - page 30. (Read 131577 times)

Nice summary superresistant, but when I see how many people already are using Telegram (and I'm one of them) and just can continue using it with or without SendChat, I'm convinced that SendChat is the better solution by far.

 
It is a nice project but do you realize that the competition is huge ?

(taken from http://www.vogue.com/5722111/mobile-payment-apps-paypal-apple-pay/)

Venmo

Compatibility: iOS and Android
In a Nutshell: Pay anyone through the Venmo network or by using their email or phone number. Payments are deposited into the recipient’s Venmo account, from which they may be withdrawn via a linked bank account. Recipients must download the Venmo app and set up a Venmo account in order to accept payments.
Payment Comes From: Your Venmo account; linked bank account; debit card; or credit card.
Fees: No fees for payments from your Venmo account, bank account, or major debit cards; you’ll be charged a three percent fee for payments from linked to credit cards or some debit cards.
Limits: $300 weekly sending limit, which goes up to $2,999.99 once you confirm your identity. No receiving limit. Confirmed users can withdraw up to $20,000 per week from Venmo to your bank account.
Fun Features: It’s a social network, so if you make your payment “public,” others can comment on and “like” your payment activities.
Hypothetical Use: Olivia, a producer at a digital agency, pays her coworker $50 for two extra tickets to a They Might Be Giants show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. A mutual friend comments, “Wait, like that Istanbul (Not Constantinople) band?”

 
Square Cash

Compatibility: iOS and Android
In a Nutshell: Pay anyone using their email address or phone number. Payments are deposited directly into the recipient’s bank account. Recipients must download the Square Cash app and link a bank account to the app to accept payments.
Payment Comes From: Your bank account linked to a U.S.-issued Visa or MasterCard debit card
Fees: None
Limits: $250 weekly sending limit and $1,000 per 30-day receiving limit, which goes up to $2,500 sending and unlimited receiving once you confirm your identity.
Fun features: The latest iOS version of the Square Cash app includes a Nearby feature, which lets you use the iPhone’s geolocation technology to send cash to users nearby.
Hypothetical Use: Emily, a partner at a West Coast venture capital fund, requests “$100 for Tahoe Bike Rental” from a prospect she has invited out to “hang out” at her vacation home for a long weekend. The prospect responds by sending “$100 for Tahoe Bike Rental.”

 
Snapcash

Compatibility: iOS and Android
In a Nutshell: Pay anyone using Snapchat. Payments are deposited directly into the recipient’s bank account. Recipients must link a bank account to Snapchat and enable Snapcash to accept payments. (Note: Because Snapcash is powered by Square’s Cash platform, it basically works the same way but with Snapchat instead of an email address or phone number.)
Payment Comes From: Your bank account linked to a U.S.-issued Visa or MasterCard debit card
Fees: None
Limits: $250 weekly sending limit and $1,000 per 30-day receiving limit, which goes up to $2,500 sending and unlimited receiving once you confirm your identity.
Fun features: You can cue up a friend’s account, and then swipe three fingers up to make it rain a dollar at a time onto your friend’s phone.
Hypothetical Use: An eighteen-year-old girl (although you can use Snapchat at thirteen, one must be eighteen and over to send Snapcash) pays her brother $15 to split the cost of a bull-shaped salt-and-pepper-shaker tchotchke that, according to her brother, would be “perfect for Mom.” Yes, this hypothetical comes straight from the official Snapcash video.

 
Dwolla

Compatibility: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Web
In a Nutshell: Pay anyone through the Dwolla network or by using their email or phone numbers. Payments are deposited into the recipient’s Dwolla account, from where they may be withdrawn to a linked bank account. Recipients must set up a Dwolla account in order to accept payments.
Payment Comes From: Your Dwolla account; or directly from your bank account (no debit or credit cards).
Fees: No fee for payments under $10, and recipients pay a flat fee of 25 cents for every transaction over $10 (which sender may elect to pay).
Limits: $5,000 per transaction limits for individuals; $10,000 per transaction limit for businesses and other organizations.
Fun features: Automatic recurring payments; pay up to 5,000 people at once.
Hypothetical Use: Shelly, an editor at a downtown design magazine, rents three apartments in her building in New York’s Flatiron neighborhood from a landlord who now lives in Palm Springs. She Airbnbs two of those apartments year-round, as well as her own apartment when she’s out of town. After years of mailing checks to Palm Springs, she finally convinced her landlord to accept recurrent rent payments for all three apartments on the first of each month using the automatic payment feature on Dwolla.

 
PayPal

Compatibility: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Web
In a Nutshell: Pay anyone with a PayPal account or by using their email or phone number. Payments are deposited into the recipient’s PayPal account, from which they may be withdrawn to a linked bank account. Recipients must set up a PayPal account in order to accept payments.
Payment Comes From: Your PayPal account; linked bank account; debit card; or credit card
Fees: None for personal payments from your PayPal account or a linked bank account; fee for personal payment using a debit card or credit card is 2.9 percent of the total amount you send, plus a flat 30 cents (which may be paid by either the sender or recipient). When you buy goods or services, the recipient of your payment pays a fee for each transaction which is 2.9 percent of the total amount plus a flat 30 cents.
Limits: $10,000 per transaction limit (after verification). $500.00 per month initial limit on the amount you withdraw from your PayPal account, which is lifted once you verify your account.
Fun features: Since PayPal is the O.G. granddaddy in the payment space, the most fun thing about it is that you can make and receive payments from 203 countries and in 26 currencies (whereas all the other USD platforms are limited to processing payments within the USA).
Hypothetical Use: Carlotta, a celebrity DJ, buys a pair of vintage Margiela boots on eBay from a newly destitute viscountess in Antwerp; she pays using PayPal.

 
LevelUp

Compatibility: iOS, Android, Windows Phone
In a Nutshell: Pay participating businesses by either scanning your in-app QR code or tapping your Near Field Communication (NFC)–enabled phone on the business’s LevelUp white box scanner.
Payment Comes From: Your linked debit card or credit card
Fees: None for you; participating businesses are charged 1.95 percent of the transaction amount (but do not pay any additional interchange fees).
Limits: No payment limits
Fun features: Discounts at participating businesses for first-time use and other rewards
Hypothetical Use: Binta, a mid-twenties gal about town, leaves a super-chic fitness studio and heads for the nearest Organic Avenue for a juice. She pays by tapping her iPhone on the white LevelUp box at the checkout counter.

 
Softcard

Compatibility: Android and Windows Phone with NFC; a Softcard-powered, Amex-only app named Serve is available on Android and iOS.
In a Nutshell: Pay at participating businesses by tapping your NFC-enabled phone on a Softcard reader.
Payment Comes From: Your linked debit card or credit card, or you can deposit a prepaid amount on your Softcard from a debit or credit card or bank account.
Fees: None to use Softcard to pay. If you choose to fund a prepaid account with a credit card, you will pay standard cash advance fees on your credit card. Participating businesses are not charged independent fees for using Softcard platforms and continue being charged the standard interchange fees associated with the underlying cards.
Limits: No payment limit. Various limits apply for all payments from your linked bank account and debit or credit card on Serve.
Fun features: You can add your existing loyalty or reward cards; Softcard has a gallery of money-saving offers from participating merchants.
Hypothetical Use: Danielle, a managing director at an investment bank who recently bought a place above the Whole Foods on Twenty-third Street, walks into said Whole Foods following an early evening run along the West Side Highway and pays for organic snacks by tapping her Galaxy Note 4 on the Softcard sensor at the checkout counter.

 
Apple Pay

Compatibility: iOS (only on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, or the coming Apple Watch)
In a Nutshell: Pay at participating businesses by holding one of the newest Apple devices near the NFC sensor while validating with Touch ID, the fingerprint-recognition feature. Pay within participating apps on your device with a single touch, too.
Payment Comes From: Your credit or debit card, linked through the Passbook app.
Fees: None for paying with Apple Pay. Participating businesses are not charged independent fees for using Apple Pay and continue being charged the standard interchange fees associated with the underlying cards.
Limits: No payment limit
Fun features: With Touch ID, you don’t have to actually look at your phone when you’re making a payment (a subtle vibration and beep let you know the deal is done), so you can close your eyes as you splurge; anonymous payment, so the person at the checkout counter never finds out that you’re actually not the celebrity you look like.
Hypothetical Use: Felicity buys something from the Marc Jacobs store on the Spring app and pays using Apple Pay. That’s actually not a hypothetical use. That just happened.

 
Google Wallet

Compatibility: Android, Web, and iOS
In a Nutshell: Pay at participating businesses by using NFC-enabled Android phones, at certain online merchants, and inside select android apps; and send money to anyone who has a Gmail account.
Payment Comes From: Your Google Wallet account, or a linked credit card, debit card, or bank account
Fees: None for using Google Wallet to pay at participating merchants, online, and in apps. Participating businesses are not charged the standard interchange fees associated with the underlying cards. For sending money to people, there is no fee if the transfer is funded with your Google Wallet Account or a bank account (via ACH), but when you send money using a debit card or a credit card, you will be charged 2.9 percent of the transaction amount, with a minimum fee of 30 cents.
Limits: No limit on payments to businesses. There is a daily peer-to-peer sending limit and a withdrawal limit of $10,000, and a $50,000 transfer limit per five-day period.
Fun features: If you happen to ever need actual greenbacks, you can use it to withdraw cash at an ATM.
Hypothetical Use: Emma, a senior software engineer at Google (and Google employee number 43), sends $10,000 to Dorothy, a marketer in Google’s marketing department, along with this Gmail message: “D—Should we be focusing millennial marketing on our insanely high P2P transfer limit?? I just sent you 10k. You can’t do that on Snapchat, right? 2.5k cap, just checked their terms. Btw: pls send back my money—just making a point.—E”

 
Blockchain Bitcoin Wallet

Compatibility: Android, iOS, Web
In a Nutshell: Pay anyone who accepts Bitcoin (a decentralized, peer-to-peer currency) at their unique Bitcoin address (a 26-to-35-character alphanumeric identifier, which you can load into the app by scanning a recipient’s QR code).
Payment Comes From: Your Bitcoin wallet, which doesn’t technically contain Bitcoins, but rather holds the private key required to authorize the transfer of the Bitcoins you own. You can obtain Bitcoins by accepting Bitcoin payments from others or buying Bitcoins with funds from bank accounts, cash, or other sources (and the app includes instructions for buying Bitcoins).
Fees: Transaction fees are completely voluntary for the sender, and bitcoin miners (the folks behind the computers that add bitcoin transactions to the public record and solve complicated mathematical equations to “mine” new bitcoins) generally do not expect to receive fees for processing typical peer-to-peer transactions. For more complex transactions, like transfers from multiple sources, Bitcoin miners do, however, expect to receive a transaction fee, so there’s an incentive for initiators to include a fee in order to incentivize Bitcoin miners to process the transaction.
Limits: None. But since Bitcoin is a new and highly experimental currency, before using Bitcoins, you should educate yourself about numerous risks associated with security, volatility, taxes, and other regulations. This document published by Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is a good starting point.
Fun features: A Bitcoin can be divided down to eight decimal places. The smallest fraction of a Bitcoin that can currently be sent—0.00000001 (that’s a hundredth of a millionth of a Bitcoin)—is called a “Satoshi.” But, let’s face it, an even more fun feature is that asking if you can “pay in Bitcoins” is just about the opposite of basic.
Hypothetical Use Case: Lisbeth, a brilliant but deeply troubled hacker, purchases a bespoke black leather jacket for the older man she loves from a legendary tailor in Stockholm; she pays using Bitcoins.


I just want the devs point of view about how to deal with the competition.

Yeah. Why not call it BC Chat? Crazy idea indeed. *shakes his head*

This looks really cool. 

Crazy idea, why not use blackcoin instead of forking it to make "sendcoin".   

This looks great, very helpful to understand better !  Thanks you for for the constant updates! ++

We will be posting a blog about the SendChat Protocol:

A preview:



http://sendchat.org/blog/

Telegram daily active users are now in the 50+ million with 1 billion daily messages.

That's 50 million users you can chat with when using SendChat with absolutely no problem. Want to send a Telegram user some bitcoin with SendChat? SendChat immediately send's them a message;

Download SendChat and receive your BTCBTCBTC!


https://telegram.org/blog/billion

Wow that's great news indeed. I hope to see the name SendChat mentioned here soon.
https://core.telegram.org/api

Seem's like Telegram is also interested! Great news

Amazing! Good luck.

Oh yes loving this sendchat more and more

Good luck!

Project looks interesting,  will closely follow.

I'm feeling some real good vibes surrounding this project and I'm looking forward to the presentation at the Amsterdam Bitcoin Embassy the 12th of december.
Wishing you good luck and a prosperous future for SendChat. 

Thanks for the comments pedroeleven

That's the idea! We want to get this app into the mainstream, we have a great feeling about it.

As for the XG comment, that was when I 'reached out to the devs' because I wanted to create a sort of alliance with ICG, but that idea never got any momentum within the ICG team, so it was abandoned. I can back those claims too.

If you do then great! Real faces on the line gives a massive legitimacy to a project, it shows you're serious and hope to fulfil promises.

The first video has actual screens from the app, those are not animations. These are actual alpha stage screens:



Yes! We will be shortly coming out with another video showing the app in operation.

As for a video with the Devs, also already planned; https://twitter.com/SendChat/status/540534692551094272

We will be presenting the project at the bitcoin embassy in Amsterdam, we will be recording that.

Thanks

Look... I don't really care what will happen with SendChat (I can imagine tho.....), but at the moment you are hurting our intelligence. Last post from XG's official account is almost 2 months ago, "roadmap" is seriously delayed (and no updates posted) and several people asked for an update. Now you guys are saying that XG is still working on the project? Also, this proves that NeutralLTC was/is involved in GOAL/XG in some way (or at least he knows about the coin). I'm sorry, but:




 

Oh well another scammer/fudder with  1 post newb account calling a respected and working hard dev a scammer ? Please get a brain.