You forgot that it pays users for using it in lots of different innovative ways seen here and here . O and don't use the term cryptocurrency they don't understand it, just say it's money, give the example of how much bitcoin is worth.

Meeste voorspellen toch een aantal jaar zie ik voordat bitcoin the hoge cijfers haalt, maar met bitcoin weet je het eigenlijk nooit. Het kan zelfs deze maand zijn. Stel dat Walmart of Mcdonalds opeens bitcoin accepteert dan vliegt de prijs echt omhoog. Zulke nieuws komen gewoon uit het niets en meestal verwacht niemand zoiets.

Although none of these apps make it able to do money transactions instantly with zero fees and rewarding users like gems plans to do. This alone is revolutionary. This app needs to go mainstream before one of these messengers start to copy its model.

I think every legit feature the community wants to see can and will eventually get implemented, updating the code is something that is always happening. Even apps that are out for years are still improving. I think there are some suggestions by the community regarding features, something for Danial maybe in the next Q&A.

Agreed, i would love to see more possibilities in this area. Please make it happen.

bitcoin is unbelievably under priced.

satoshi might be gavin or andreas.

bitcoin needs to be way way way more accepted, if just the big merchants like mcdonalds, burgerking, starbucks etc. accepting it would be gold. Still waiting for one of these big fastfood retaurant to accept it.

Off-chain makes gemz instant, can bitcoin also be off chain for instant transactions?

Anyone knows how long it takes for GEMZ transaction to confirm in the app? And will bitcoin confirmation time stay the same or will is also be faster?

I give my username you add me and from there i add people to groupchat, there is room up to 200 people. Imagine how fun it would be. Although i have to send btc to users separately since sending btc in a groupchat is not possible (yet).

Sending gifs is pretty cool, app is slowly maturing to that killer IM people want. I might do a bits giveaway from within the app after the airdrop and iOS release. People will have to download the app and join group chat. This way they can experience the next level crypto simplicity.

The problem is that the common person is too much dumbed down by the government, they are economic slaves without knowing it and dont know how bitcoin can free them.

No i dont do business with chinese exchanges because its harder to deal with than western exchanges, they seem less trustable to me from past bitcoin events in comparison to a regulated exchange in the west.

Because if bitcoin goes mainstream it can put lot of other payment processors out of business, like wu, visa, mastercard and even banks. Thos who follow wont really get hurt but other might not want bitcoin to succeed and they have some power to slow down bitcoins growth. You cant compare some photo sharing technology with bitcoin.

Dat is inderdaad een leuke feature, brengt meer fun. Waar ik heel erg op hoop is dat ze het verzenden van bitcoin en gemz mogelijk maken voor groep chat wat tot 200 personen plaats maakt om deel te nemen. Op whatsapp ben ik vaak actief met vrienden in groep chat en zou echt cool zijn als mensen elkaar bitcoin of gemz zouden kunnen sturen, het opent een nieuw manier van communiceren bv weddenschappen, flirten, of soms wat iemand zegt is zo goed dat je hem gewoon wilt belonen met btc/gemz ipv een box te geven en dat anderen meekijken is toch wel mooi.

Agreed especially the second one which i really hope gets implemented, it would be very useful and a game changer as well since it opens a whole new way of communicating in a group, you can use btc/gemz to bet, flirt, or you just want to reward someone by something he said which could be equivalent to street hand gestures you give your friend and the fact that everyone is watching is money is being sended in such manner is pretty amazing.

Ik gok op Maart.

Can we price it in already then?

We should organise a bitcoin (bits) giveaway through Gems app, this can be done as a tribute to the iOS and airdrop release which makes both os versions complete. There is room for 200 people in group chat, how awesome would that be.

1. Our major concern during the last two weeks is improving Counterparty stability. We currently rely on Counterparty servers in order to perform tasks like opening a new wallet, sending coins, etc. The Counterparty dev team updates their servers and API very frequently and these changes aren't always backwards compatible. Then we suddenly find ourselves with broken API and rushing to publish fixes because important features suddenly stop working. Our plan of action is to launch a cluster of our own XCP nodes (they are open-source after all) and rely on them instead. This way, we will control the rate of updates and can make any updates to our client before the servers change. We have successfully set up a staging environment for this and will soon after some QA deploy it to production as well.

2. We finished development for unsolicited user support - meaning the ability to search the global user database of GetGems users according to their GetGems username and start a conversation with them without knowing their phone number. [In the future, our model dictates that sending unsolicited messages to users who don’t necessarily want to receive them, will cost GEMZ (this is part of the attention economy model)].

3. We are thinking of ways to increase our user base and make the GetGems app more viral. The first method we're working on is handling sending of coins (GEMZ/BTC) to contacts who don't have the GetGems app (they are using a regular Telegram client). These users will receive a Telegram message saying that their contact is trying to send coins and they have to download the app in order to collect them (download link added). This feature is currently in QA.

4. Another very exciting feature we're working on is integration with an amazing 3rd party sticker provider. This opt out feature will display context-aware stickers during chat (even animated GIFs) which makes chatting through GetGems much more visual and fun. When these special chat messages are sent to users who don't have a supporting client (like the GetGems client), they'll receive a message urging them to download the GetGems app in order to see the content of the message. We are currently in the middle of the integration phase which we expect to be finished within less than week.

5. We currently allow several GetGems accounts to be opened on the same phone number (useful in case somebody loses the passphrase and has to open a new account). This behavior causes an inconsistency when sending coins to users by text message, in case the receiving user has opened several different accounts (wallets) on the same phone number - which wallet should receive the coins? We altered the current behavior to send the coins to the latest account but this fix is temporary. We're working on a more robust solution where the receiving user will provide the sending user with the current wallet that is in use by their app.