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Nice service. Good job Kris!

Best regards,
Nejc Kodrič

Thank you!

Great idea. Very good to make it work over WAP. Africa is a huge market for bitcoin and mobile payments and usage is very high there.
A quick google found http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:22551641~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258644,00.html (http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:22551641~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258644,00.html).

Awesome, awesome, awesome. How portable is it? I assume that it runs on the extremely stripped down Java VMs that such phones use, so it should be reasonably compatible.

I suspect you have a winner there ;)

Huge news is huge. Tried to upvote. Can't. +1 Internet applied.

great work Kris!

How about getting some beta testers before the press release?

What I want to know, so the recipient gets a link that can be used to claim (withdraw) the bitcoins?
Is that secure?  E-mail is not secure.   Messages transfer in clear text.
As soon as it is realized that data redeemable for anonymous digital currency are floating through the ethers in your messages, thieves will be sniffing for your messages.

So, if this is what you are doing, probably this approach will require some further thought?

Also, in the developing country, oftentimes both the merchant and the customer only have feature phones.  The ability to send to another person's mobile (SMS text message on both ends) would be a useful feature.

[Edit: This service from WalletBit uses WAP, not SMS text messaging.]

Solve that and you'll have the first "M-Pesa, bitcoin edition".

Steve, does that vulnerability also apply to Coinapult?

Everything is sent unencrypted through e-mail (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76493.msg849654#msg849654), so yes.

It works on my blackberry with Opera Mobile, that's cool. But the secure password that I created didn't work for logging in via WAP, even though it did work for logging in to the website. The secure password included symbols such as #, !, and *, and was 16 characters log generated by LastPass. When I chose the password reset option, the password was reset to a shorter one with only numbers and lowercase letters, although the new, reset password allowed me to access the site via WAP.

It looks like you can only send coins via an email address somehow, is that correct? EDIT: Apparently recipients must have a Walletbit account, but the limitations might be because Opera Mobile is crappy.

Strange, maybe a limitation I didn't foresee for the WML language. Yes WML is very old, I don't even think it is being developed on anymore.


Correct, both parties need to sign up at WalletBit with their email as stated in the press release.

You could easily make it so that the wallet has a bitcoin address to receive coins, and so that the user can send to a bitcoin address.  There's really no technical reason for not offering that, right (other than sending to a Bitcoin address requires tediously typing in a valid string of letters and numbers.)?

It does have an address to receive funds to, or did you mean something else?

I really like the virtual visa card

has anyone used this successfully?

Oh, so I am misunderstanding Kris' statement before?  It can work where I send bitcoins from my cleint (e.g., bitcoin-qt) to a Bitcoin addres for the WAP wallet for the recipient?  (i.e., standalone user)

Yes, but you can only send them from the WAP client to other walletbit users. For me, I had to sign up for 2 accounts: one WAP and one "normal", in order to withdraw at all to a normal bitcoin address.

Be sure to checkout our In the works.

https://walletbit.com/about/in-the-works

You are now able to purchase on merchant sites using WalletBit as payment option without having a WalletBit account. In the payment window just click on "No WalletBit account? Pay using any Bitcoin client" and it will switch to a window showing Qr code, price and the bitcoin address in Bitcoin URI link for transferring the amount to, when the transaction hits 3 confirmations Instant Payment Notification will be send to the merchant site even if you paid with no WalletBit account.

Pretty awesome if you ask me, but I cannot be very objective since I made it.

Regards
Kris

Now, that's what was missing ;)

Indeed  :D

Interested in Mobile Wallet?

We might have just what you need.

https://walletbit.com/includes/iphone.png (http://responsepay.com)

    ResponsePay (http://responsepay.com)

Read more at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91431.0

Showcase video for transferring bitcoin instant to another wallet on a phone using ResponsePay.

From HTC Android with Opera Mobile 12 to iPhone Safari.

http://youtu.be/ovZv4KyuCrY

There are two methods of sending bitcions, one as "Withdraw" and the other "Send Bitcoins".  This is confusing.  Other wallets apps and services use the term Send bitcoins to send them to another bitcoin address.

WalletBit uses "Send Bitcoins" to navigate to the send via e-mail form, and "Withdraw" to navigate to the send to a bitcoin address.

Perhaps the menu should be "Send via email"?  Or perhaps, make it one form and let me choose the destination, bitcoin address or e-mail?  I do see that the forms are for different purposes so I don't know that trying to use just one form would work though.

Another question ... is it necessary to have Secure Card for all withdrawal actions?   That is overbearing  for typical transactions.  As a user, I might be willing to risk a daily withdrawal of, oh, say 7 BTC (about $50 USD worth) without having to enter a Secure Card.  If there were a threshold in settings that I could set myself, that way the wallet would be secure for a little larger amount of bitcoins (where Secure Card is required to withdraw) yet remains convenient for routine purchase amounts.

I will look into this, thank you for the suggestion! You will see I made it the way you explained at ResponsePay.

In my mind the Secure Card is always necessary. But I have tried to make it very easy with ResponsePay where you simply need to input a 4 digit pin code to unlock the interface.

If you enable it from your WalletBit -> Manage Email and Personal notifications -> Enable Mobile ResponsePay, you will see what I am talking about, since it can be used on a desktop as well as any newer mobile device.


And Happy Anniversary To WalletBTCit!

                      

There will be scheduled downtime for WalletBit & ResponsePay tomorrow between 9:00am and 1:00pm

We are doing electrical upgrades.

Regards
Kris

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Thank you

Hey Kris,
I been using walletbit for a good amount of time.
I must say your service and updates on walletbit has been amazing!
I think I been on walletbit for more then a year and i will continue using it!

Thank you very much Rexcoin, warms my heart when I hear words like that. I will as always continue to make it the best Bitcoin Merchant Solution I possibly can.

I signed up for Walletbit in order to pay my VPN service - worked well (except for the three hour wait to deposit)

January:
Deposited 1btc
paid .77 for the service
had a balance of .221

Now:
The bill just came and I knew I had enough to pay it (.15btc)

I signed on to Walletbit - BTC0.00

What happened to my balance?

It's really hard to know without more information. Please write to support. Thanks.

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