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Title: Bitcoin by SMS Post by: CajunTechie on March 29, 2011, 10:39:17 PM I'm a software developer who just found Bitcoin yesterday and am totally excited by it. I've been looking for a non-government issued currency for a while and Bitcoin seems to fit the ticket very well. Of course, I'm wanting to contribute to the community I'm wondering about a project I've been mulling over all day.
Are there any services that allow you to send/receive Bitcoin by SMS? Think about Paypal and how you can send someone money by their mobile website. Now, just extend that to a regular SMS message. Is it something anyone would find useful? Does it already exist? If it doesn't exist and if it's of interest, I think I might take the project on. Thanks! CT Title: Re: Bitcoin by SMS Post by: Jered Kenna (TradeHill) on March 29, 2011, 10:44:31 PM Someone is developing (looks like it's going well) a cell phone client. Android I believe.
I don't think a simple SMS would work except for just sending your public key hash. That's not really something you need a program for though. There are lots of things to develop though because it's so new. Take a look around there are lists of things people would like to see. Glad to have you in the community. Title: Re: Bitcoin by SMS Post by: CajunTechie on March 29, 2011, 10:52:00 PM Thanks Stonetz,
I guess this shows how new I am to the Bitcoin economy and how much I still have to learn. I'll poke around and see what needs to be done and jump in on those issues. Thanks for the feedback! Title: Re: Bitcoin by SMS Post by: Stephen Gornick on March 30, 2011, 12:22:20 AM Are there any services that allow you to send/receive Bitcoin by SMS? Think about Paypal and how you can send someone money by their mobile website. Now, just extend that to a regular SMS message. For mobile there is Bitcoin-js-remote http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin-js-remote and Spesmilo http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Spesmilo All Bitcoin clients: http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Clients Prior discussion: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1739.0 If you simply are looking for SMS notification of payments received to your own mobile, that can be done using MyBitcoin (using your mobile's email to phone mail address.) Title: Re: Bitcoin by SMS Post by: Stephen Gornick on April 11, 2011, 09:53:39 AM There's now an SMS service that allows some bitcoin transactions where the charges are billed to the mobile phone bil (for those in Belgium and the Netherlands):
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5689.0 Title: Re: Bitcoin by SMS Post by: byronbb on April 13, 2011, 12:27:00 AM Twitter > SMS imo
Title: Re: Bitcoin by SMS Post by: Jered Kenna (TradeHill) on April 13, 2011, 01:01:52 AM Twitter > SMS imo In general yeah but it would be nice to have both. Especially if it's just something real quick or one party doesn't use twitter. Title: Re: Bitcoin by SMS Post by: jed on April 13, 2011, 02:24:37 AM Do one of these :) http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5382.0
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