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Hello all,

Bitcoin Spinner (the greatest Android Bitcoin client in existence) has now integrated BitInstant (the greatest way to buy Bitcoins) fully into the mobile app.

Version 0.6.0b:
 -Added 'Buy Coins' option that integrates with BitInstant
 -Now also accepts the (wrong) Bitcoin URI used by Blockain's iPhone app.
 -Minor UI tweaking to optimize for small displays
 -Fixed minor typos in Danish and Finnish translation
 -Added reference to source used for currency conversion (MtGox)

Now, using your mobile phone, you can go buy Bitcoins with cash at hundreds of thousands of locations in US, Brazil, and Russia. No computer needed – you can do it all from inside the store location itself!

Download Bitcoin Spinner here (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miracleas.bitcoin_spinner&hl=en)

Step 1: Click the menu, then “Buy Coins” button


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14454595/rebitcoinspinner/2.png
Step 2: Enter the amount of cash you will deposit


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14454595/rebitcoinspinner/3.png
Step 3: Select your deposit location


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14454595/rebitcoinspinner/4.png
Step 4: Confirm the location and amount details, then an invoice is sent to you


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14454595/rebitcoinspinner/6.png
Step 5: Take the invoice (in your email) to the location and deposit cash in the account number shown to you.


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14454595/rebitcoinspinner/7b.png

Take your receipt, and you’re done! The coins will be sent to your BitcoinSpinner wallet (typically within 30 minutes)!

Charlie

This is great.  Several times I drove by the bank and looked in my wallet and found money, and said to myself "I can buy bitcoins with this, but I need to go home first". Well not anymore.  I can pull into the bank parking lot, type away on my phone, and walk in with my cash.  Nice job guys!

And the bar raises yet another notch... nicely done! Now (again) if I could go to the store with BTC and come out with cash...  :D

Kudos to the BitInstant team for making this possible! I just did a little integration work with BitcoinSpinner, they are the real heroes.

I must say that I felt like a small kid at Christmas when I went down to the local bank the other day to test this new feature. And... Lo and behold, after 30 minutes I had my present, 15 shiny bitcoins directly into the wallet on my phone. No paper, no computer, no ID. Just cash and my phone.

Wow. Good job with this. One step forward for Bitcoin.

I highly recommend everyone try this out once, with just $20, to see how awesome and easy it is. I think many people have not come to realize how easy obtaining Bitcoins is getting.

When cash deposits came out, you no longer needed to wire money.
When Coinapult came out, you no longer needed to use an exchange.
And now with mobile integration, you no longer need even a computer!

Go try it, it'll help you explain how easy it is to others when they ask how to buy bitcoins.

That's only a couple months away ;)

Aww damn, I was hoping it would be sooner. Oh well.

Erik just says 'months' so we look good when we launch it in 'weeks'  ;D

Woot! I hear ya!

"Under-promise and over-deliver"... but now you've ruined that, haven't you Charlie :)

Dude, I really want this drone: http://www.brookstone.com/parrot-ar-drone-2-quadricopter?bkiid=SearchResults|CategoryProductList|786406p

Awesome news.

even better.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bfeld/dead-cat-helicopter (http://www.buzzfeed.com/bfeld/dead-cat-helicopter)

+1

Aren't the prices quoted above a little disingenuous? As I understand it, you charge your 4% plus the $1 or so that trustcash charges you, for something like $105 total instead of $102.xx as in the trustcash invoice above. Also, we enter USD, which rate is used for the exchange? Ask on MtGox?

-bgc

Good job again Charlie... :)

I don't see any prices quoted above, just screenshots. Nothing in them led me to make any assumptions about fee structures.

If you think the prices are too high, you're welcome to compete with your own product. That's what determines the market value of a service.

Good job guys! I wish this was available in Europe so I can try it out myself..

well, this just prompted me to delete Bitcoin Wallet and reinstall Spinner on my Android.

now, just get that PIN thing going!

I've put BitcoinSpinner on my brother's, girlfriend's, her brother's and his wife's phones and gave them all some bitcoins. After this spike yesterday, they're asking me how to buy more bitcoins.

Now I have something to tell them that doesn't involve using a computer before going to the store!

This is very welcome news!

some feedback:
when I click the "buy bitcoins" option it sends me to the bitinstant site and prompts me for how many USD I want to get - I put in 10 (for example)and hit "go" - and I get "500 server error".
I guess this is as I'm in an area not supported by bitinstant (Australia), a message rather than an error code could be handy here.

Thanks! Will work on getting that fixed

Would it be possible for you guys to expose an API and/or a list of deposit locations? It seems like Android developers could do a great job of integrating this with maps, using mobile location, etc, but only if you have some kind of API that exposes your service.

The user experience I have in mind is, I open up an Android wallet (whether it be Spinner, Bitcoin Wallet or whatever), and press a "Buy Bitcoins" button. It then uses my coarse location to show me the 5 nearest deposit locations, tapping one of them brings up a map with driving/transit/walking directions and some instructions for what to do when I get there. It'd automatically send an address to your site, and retrieve the necessary codes to deposit the cash. In this way it'd be slick and integrated.

BTW, any plans to open up this service in Europe?

Hey,

All API details are here https://www.bitinstant.com/api, however it is not fully updated.

I recomend you get in touch with us and one of our developers will walk you thru the simple setup and have your app running in days! We're already integrating with 2 more Android apps!

Also, yes Europe is next on the list. In fact, Im having dinner with a banker this evening!

-Charlie

Good luck! :)

Update!

If you're in the US, our mobile deposit page will automatically request your location via GPS and save you having to type your ZIP code

Update!

ZipZap support now live and something else is on the way

mmm, a glass of chianti with defaulted client brain for main course and a sweet young pussy for dessert

Hope you kept your pants on! ;-)

(ZipZap is a bit like uKash btw)

Great to see this, definitely the best Bitcoin experience in the US

Can Bitcoin Spinner be updated with the following features?

1. check out localbitcoins.com and they can estimate the USD value of your bitcoins in several ways. Last Price, Weighted Average, or something. I'd personally like to use the weighted average. Make an option for that.

2. localbitcoins uses openexchangerates.com to estimate the USD to 150+ country currencies. I'd like to chose more than the dozen or so currency options. It is still an estimate after all, but a lot of people will probably use those. I'm in the Philippines so PHP is basically compared to the USD.

I'd also like this feature on all the other bitcoin software stuff, but that depends on each program already.