The latest update for the original Bitcoin Cash (BCH) wallet, ElectronCash.org, includes support for sending funds to phone numbers using CoinText’s open API. In addition to using Bitcoin Cash (BCH) addresses, Electron Cash wallet users can now send funds directly to mobile phone numbers in 42 countries. The funds are Read more…
On November 15th, 2018, the scheduled Bitcoin cash hard fork occurred (see previous announcement). The result of this event was the creation of two new blockchains on the Bitcoin Cash network, sharing a previous history. Because this fork was contentious, CoinText, as explained in our previous announcement, chose to take Read more…
On November 15th, 2018 a scheduled update of the Bitcoin Cash network (a “hard fork”) will take place. The upgrade will result in a divergence between the underlying consensus rules (“ruleset”) in the software governing Bitcoin Cash nodes. This divergence will result in two or more ledgers being created within Read more…
By Vin Armani CTO and Lead Developer – CoinText.io It has become clear, through our private beta release of CoinText, that our product represents an unfamiliar paradigm for many in the crypto community. Although financial transactions over SMS are already quite popular worldwide – M-Pesa alone registered 6 Billion SMS Read more…
What if setting up a cryptocurrency wallet was as easy as sending a text to grandma? What if you could send Bitcoin Cash to any mobile phone in the world without Internet? What if the unbanked could connect to the global economy using a feature phone? What if they could Read more…