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A number of 1 star reviews for the verification process. But many 5 star ones for good user interface.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.circle.android&hl=en

i download it too but not use it to daily transaction
iam still use coinbase and xapo

The app is super easy and user friendly.

I've heard on this forum that, they were giving away $5 bitcoin to new users (but it seems to be stopped now). However it don't support my place. Also, since it quite new and not being so trusted now (maybe), I won't prefer using it. I would use some trusted online wallets or the original bitcoin wallet app if I need to use my coins in my phone.

Why do you think there not to be trusted?  They just got a investment from goldman sachs.

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I have an iPhone, and am perfectly happy with the BTC app, easy to use, by blockchain.info (http://blockchain.info).  I believe that blockchain.info has an app for Android too.

I keep a small balance there, as I do not consider my smartphone "secure".

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Alley

Apparently this is all over NYC now, artist unknown:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fACM-iI5cqg/VW-63adnYBI/AAAAAAABAN8/2JkzfrnaYis/s400/nohzagoldmanrats.jpg

Goldman Rats.  Submit, Poors.

wasn't it circle that was giving away $5 worth of bitcoin to everyone to attract user to itself?

if the 10,000 50,000 downloads are related to their promotion it doesn't show anything about the popularity or anything about the service. it shows that so many people got $5

As what I think, trust needs time to build. I personally don't trust some new things (just like my attitude to bitcoin before I join the community - I think bitcoin must collapse soon and there is no value to bitcoin, but now it is reverse). Only old things that got reputation will be trusted by me.

this is a great app does anyone else have a list of Bitcoin applications for mobile?

True but you have to admit that it was a brilliant way to promote it.  They must have spent a ton on this promotion but it appears that it gained them some traction.  If they have goldman money, then they are bankrolled by the usa taxpayers.  This puts them in a good position to take risks like this promotion.

It's great that they had so many downloads but I don't think they gained this many users, they had a $5 download giveaway running as already mentioned and most people might have used their friends/relatives mobiles to download the app and get the $5 bitcoin and they might have deleted the app just after receiving the BTC, unless ofcourse Circle attached some conditions with it. Were the users able to withdraw the $5 in bitcoin to their other wallets??


Just enter bitcoin in the store search and you'll find many bitcoin related apps but you wouldn't find much use of them.

actually many were from the same account, there was a large abusing in that promotion, i would not be surprised if from those 50k only 1000-10k are legit

It dosen't really mean anything , probably most of them aren't really using Bitcoin and just used it while their promotion and when they were giving 5$ for free or some people simply abused that offer . Last time I heard on TV Bitcoin users number was 250k so I'am pretty sure not that there is a lot less then 50k who are using Circle .

I need to update my phone non-compat device
That said its nice to see its getting a good amount of downloads although people are complaining about the qr code being honored.
And some people just went for the promo but they have to spend the $5 one way or another  ;D

Circle > Coinbase

Definitely!

I don't use mobile wallets/apps to deal with bitcoin, I simply HODL in cold storage as I have no intention to spend any of my stash but those are pretty impressive numbers.
It shows more & more people are migrating into bitcoin which makes me happy.
Maybe in a few years Circle might hope to have 500,000 people using the app.
Continued growth is key for Circle & bitcoin as a whole & I'm confident they'll/we'll achieve it.

It took me like 90 minutes to get fully set up with the app due to my pokey smartphone. Not really usable for real-world transactions. But at this point that's not what bitcoin is for.

I was aware of Circle a couple of months ago, still to try out their app.  I currently use Coinbase but have not used their android app yet, there was somebody yesterday talking about some security flaw of the Coinbase android app but didn't go into too much detail,  I think there was only a flaw if you were running an old version of android.
My point is I think as we are still in the early days of Bitcoin adoption it will take a good bit of time before we have a 100% secure android app if at all.  Keeping large amounts in cold storage is probably the best way to go for now.

personally like circle so much
their apps have a nice user interface and easy to use
no lag like other phone wallet, so light :)

What would be the benefits of running this wallet? As far as I can see from the images on the Play Store it seems to be a Bitcoin wallet but I'm only seeing $$. Is this the direction we are headed? Using USD instead of BTC?

I am an archaic man in this sense. I have still not left Bitcoin Core personally, and some paper wallets. I have no idea how all those online services work except the blockchain.info wallet.

Same here, but been looking into HD wallets. I think those are the future, the improvement in privacy make them superior to any other wallets. Love Armory and Electrum for non-main storage.

With Circle, you dont even control your bitcoins .. it makes bitcoin centralized, which is the opposite intent of cryptocurrency.  I can't believe people are actually using this dubious service ..

With circle you can buy bitcoins and withdraw them to any wallet.  Just like any exchange... 

circle giving away $5 to promote their services is not necessarily a bad thing. they have to attract attention somehow. there were a lot of other services that started this way.

if i am not mistaken, paypal was giving away something like $1 at the beginning of its work, too.

it is not that different from any other exchange(and you use them too), a decentralized circle would be far better, but it is still a good tool for many users that want fast transactions with about bitcoin

This is good to see that the Circle app has a decent amount of downloads. The number can only grow with time, and i think Circle will help a lot with bitcoin's adoption in the long run.

Im not sure about the number of downloads is real from 1 person, because people abuse a free $5 :P
but i like circle app, nice interface and the transactions is better.


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Well there's quite a gap between 10-50 thousand but anyway, both figures are quite good! I've been wondering how they calculate app downloads. I often delete an app only to re-download it a few weeks later. Does that count as a new download or not? I guess that could account for quite a few downloads if that is the case.

well i guess they have to do these kinds of promotional giveaways in order to attract people to their services, otherwise they might die in the competition. ofcourse a lot of them was fake accounts that abused the system to get the $5 only but still i can see why they did it.

Stay competent Circle. And get more competent staff. 

may be people downloaded it just because google offered $5 to each user.

Yes, I think that happened because they offered 5$ for free and many people did the promo several times  :-\

No, not Google but Circle itself pays people. All I can see is USD and no BTC. I'll download it in a short moment and share more info.

its just so easy for branded companies to manipulate people and do what they want them to do , isn't it?

I use the awesome and easy to use wallet brought by blockchain.info (http://blockchain.info)

I use it on my samsung phone >>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=piuk.blockchain.android&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=piuk.blockchain.android&hl=en)


And my iPad >>>https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blockchain-bitcoin-wallet/id493253309?mt=8 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blockchain-bitcoin-wallet/id493253309?mt=8)


It's really nice for daily transactions  ;)

I have been using the blockchain.info wallet too, but the recent news (Android bug and site problems) has me a bit more worried about using them lately.

Why circle android application is not launched in India. I just visited the Google play store. Its showing that " this apps is not available in your country.

it has been launched in india you just have to download it through your mobile browsee or 1mobile market.

It is still showing same message. Your device is not eligible for installing this application. I have also searched on 1mobile , I am unable to find it. Ca. Anyone post direct link to download it for indian Except google play store.

well , there is no use of downloading it now as the $5 offer is expired. there are much better wallets out there in the playstore .

Whether your using the app or not, have to say Circle Exchange really rocks.

Seems like super fast to get $100 worth of btc, via ach.

H.