Video of using Coinbase easily on Telegram with Julia

[Netnox]

Coinbase Developer Spotlight: Julia - A Telegram Bot That Makes Bitcoin Easy to Use

https://developers.coinbase.com/blog/2015/08/03/julia-telegram-bot-for-bitcoin

[franky1]

so the video says how hard it is to just do a bitcoin tx..

well..
julia.. needs you to:
1)set up a coinbase account.
2) get the telegram app
3)a getgemsbot account
4)set up julia
... hmmmm

easier to just get a coinbase account and use their own send feature.. and skip 2,3,4......... sorry julia.. you seem too complicated plus your not avoiding coinbase fee's or possibly your own fee's

[reRaise]

so the video says how hard it is to just do a bitcoin tx..

well..
julia.. needs you to:
1)set up a coinbase account.
2) get the telegram app
3)a getgemsbot account
4)set up julia
... hmmmm

easier to just get a coinbase account and use their own send feature.. and skip 2,3,4......... sorry julia.. you seem too complicated plus your not avoiding coinbase fee's or possibly your own fee's

Lol Step 234 all take seconds, downloading an app takes seconds and many already have it anyway, U dont get a 'julia getgems account', you just type her username in search and there she is, takes like 3 seconds and then u just connect her to coinbase by tapping on the link.

Many already have a coinbase account and even more have already telegram. So its much less work then how you make is seem to be. After that users can use bitcoin in the most convinient way straight from an app that is actually mainstream. I believe around 3k users are already using julia.

[shorena]

so the video says how hard it is to just do a bitcoin tx..

well..
julia.. needs you to:
1)set up a coinbase account.
2) get the telegram app
3)a getgemsbot account
4)set up julia
... hmmmm

easier to just get a coinbase account and use their own send feature.. and skip 2,3,4......... sorry julia.. you seem too complicated plus your not avoiding coinbase fee's or possibly your own fee's

Lol Step 234 all take seconds,

Lol copying an address takes seconds,

downloading an app takes seconds and many already have it anyway,

downloading a bitcoin app takes seconds and almost anyone already has one anyway,

U dont get a 'julia getgems account', you just type her username in search and there she is, takes like 3 seconds and then u just connect her to coinbase by tapping on the link.

you dont even have to authorize a 3rd centralized party in order to send bitcoin.

Many already have a coinbase account and even more have already telegram. So its much less work then how you make is seem to be. After that users can use bitcoin in the most convinient way straight from an app that is actually mainstream. I believe around 3k users are already using julia.

By all means go for it if you think its so great, just dont expect any sympathy if they gox you.

[reRaise]

Lol copying an address takes seconds,

Copying long addresses, double checking them if something is missing and doing this frequently is just annoying and an average person won't be liking it, especially Telegram and younger users. With this you eliminate this step and make transacting Bitcoin to something everyone is already familiar with. I believe Satoshi mentioned somewhere himself that eventually there will be services making adresses not needed.

downloading a bitcoin app takes seconds and almost anyone already has one anyway,

Still mainstream doesn't really care about a bitcoin app, this way you bring bitcoin to mainstream and not the other way around which shows isn't really successfull (what trying to get people into Bitcoin is like)

you dont even have to authorize a 3rd centralized party in order to send bitcoin.

This goes back to trust, just like trusting Coinbase and other bitcoin related apps or exchanges, so you need to do your due diligence. For the average person though convenience is the most important.

[Denker]

This goes back to trust, just like trusting Coinbase and other bitcoin related apps or exchanges, so you need to do your due diligence. For the average person though convenience is the most important.

Correct. That's the reason why we are always repeating not to hold your coins on a 3rd party account. Go there, do your tradings and get out there.
Coinffeine is the first step to decentraliced exchanges. And I'm pretty sure there will be more in the future.This is the way we should go.

[reRaise]

This goes back to trust, just like trusting Coinbase and other bitcoin related apps or exchanges, so you need to do your due diligence. For the average person though convenience is the most important.

Correct. That's the reason why we are always repeating not to hold your coins on a 3rd party account. Go there, do your tradings and get out there.
Coinffeine is the first step to decentraliced exchanges. And I'm pretty sure there will be more in the future.This is the way we should go.

Definitly going the right way, but Coinffeine is still hard to use for the average joe, my bro just installed it on his computer and he already doesn't get it. He asks what is okpay and he needs an api token where it says you can manually configure your api credentials, then it asks for your account id and your token, after this step he uninstalled it cus he didn't understand anything about it and to be honest i didn't really get it aswell. The majority of average users will do the same. It might be decentralized but trust me the end user doesn't care much about that, they care more about simplicity and things who they already are familiar with.

Julia introduces them to Coinbase which is a solid and reputable company with 2+ million users through Telegram, another popular app with 65+ million users. At first you need to bring Bitcoin to the masses by implementing it to the already existing popular channels which everyone uses and not bring the masses to Bitcoin because they won't get it.

[BillyBobZorton]

I don't understand the need of "AI" bots assistants. I just want a simple, GUI interface that will let me do what I want to do instead of being guided by some bot dressed as a woman, I think that's moronic, but whatever helps mainstream adoption I guess.

[seedtrue]

I don't understand the need of "AI" bots assistants. I just want a simple, GUI interface that will let me do what I want to do instead of being guided by some bot dressed as a woman, I think that's moronic, but whatever helps mainstream adoption I guess.

I wish my entire life could be controlled by bots dressed as women. It would make life so much easier if things were that way.

[reRaise]

I don't understand the need of "AI" bots assistants. I just want a simple, GUI interface that will let me do what I want to do instead of being guided by some bot dressed as a woman, I think that's moronic, but whatever helps mainstream adoption I guess.

Can't get simpler than this mate.

[matale0]

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[LeGaulois]

I watched the video and sorry but I don't really see how it can be usefull. It may look funny because you think you're using a bot and it is simple to use. But as a company such as Coinbase it makes far more sense to make their own app from scratch. And you can surely make the same in a native app

[squatz1]

I watched the video and sorry but I don't really see how it can be usefull. It may look funny because you think you're using a bot and it is simple to use. But as a company such as Coinbase it makes far more sense to make their own app from scratch. And you can surely make the same in a native app

Well when you really go to think about this, it's really not going to be that hard to simply go to the Coinbase website and do all of this. If you're already buying and want to do it, I'd rather have the satisfaction and sense of security of going on the real site to at least feel a little better about putting my money into an exchange which is ridden with support backlog and issues.

Seems more or less like a waste of time, the only real usage I can see for this is in a time of insane volatility where someone is going to want to get in and out of Bitcoin to make trades. Though this isn't going to make sense as using normal coin-base (not gdax) is going to be RIDDEN with fees. It's a good idea, though it's not really practical in the least for normal usage.