Bitcoin's KILLER app

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[Mickeyb]

Bitcoin is already killer in so many ways, why does there always have to be some magical future app that makes bitcoin finally "successful"?

Exactly this! We don't need THE killer application. Bitcoin is the killer application by itself. We need to keep developing this technology and make it possible to use in many ways and then let the markets and customers decide what's appropriate use case for them.

Will this be remittances? Or will they use it as a commodity to save part of their fortunes. Will they use it for regular day to day payments or for its semi anonymity purposes. It's up to consumers to decide.

[gentlemand]

killer app is a great shops like ebay or amazon that supports bitcoin.

I think we can safely say that's not the case going on current examples. I suppose the definition of killer app would be something that makes someone say 'holy shit. I GOT to get me some of this Bitcoin stuff. It can do something nothing else can'. You can already use your conventional money just fine with merchants.

[Pursuer]

bitcoin on its own is the killer app. the only thing missing is the fact that it is not yet mass adopted. so the killer app or anything you want to call it is something that can make this come true.
some event, news or whatever which makes bitcoin be used everywhere as an alternative payment method.

[Redrose]

Local banks even adopt btc and treat bitcoin as fiat. Ppl can deposit and withdraw btc from the bank account digitally.

[Q7]

Not sure how I would define a killer app but for me, something useful, convenient plus having user-friendly features would be nice. For example if the app can show me which location within my vicinity where there are stores accepting bitcoin or something that integrates online shopping sites, bitcoin exchangers, everything all into one.

[Greentree]

Bitcoin is tagged with white coins which can be legally circulated, black coins which are rejected by the network due to that they are from hacking or stealing. Then there is no security issue with bitcoin.

[Guido]

It is here imminently

https://www.goabra.com/

http://www.coindesk.com/launch-bitcoin-remittance-abra/
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-to-cash-app-abra-raises-12-million-series-a/

this is the market to disrupt, remittance
worth hundreds of billions annually

so much of world unbanked, refugees, sending money home etc

it will solve the problem of banks not supporting and branches like western union have in place with their astronomical fees

goabra have tellers, street tellers recruiting hundreds/thousands of them!

watch this

plus they just got millions in funding for the btc integration etc and furtherment
this is exciting

[Gutemberg]

I think that the real KILLER app was silk road site at the beginning....after that a lot off app but not as much killer as silk road

[cellard]

This video series is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nOfHpOFhN8

As you can see there are way too many potential applications for Bitcoin to try to guesstimate what will be the real killer app, so there will be at leas a couple apps that are considered "killer". I think credential wise, voting mechanisms and the money itself are already on this department.

[gentlemand]

I think that the real KILLER app was silk road site at the beginning....after that a lot off app but not as much killer as silk road

Agreed. It did everything a killer app should do - enabled something totally new, made BTC the only option to do it and brought attention. I wonder what the equivalent will be for the wider world.

[worhiper_-_]

It might be just me but I'm yet to find a downloadable wallet that I could use to introduce my clueless family to bitcoin. I'd love to send them fractions of coins but there's no application simple enough to help with that. And when I say simple, I mean as simple as it can get. Take skype an an example, when it came out it was the most popular application of it's kind because it oversimplified a process that wasn't accessible to people with very little or no technical knowledge. Some features might have been snipped off, but usability is the same. An equivalent with bitcoin would be forgetting fundamentalism, stripping down everything but receiving/sending bitcoin (and few other things).

[Kprawn]

I should think any app like GEMS could be the killer app if it took off on social media. I really wanted Streamium.io to blow Meerkat and Periscope out of the water, when it was

launched, but it turned out to be buggy, to say the least. If the final product was a bit more polished, it would have been the killer application for me.

It seems as though developers are rushing these apps to be the first, but they end up offering below par product, compared to their competition. 

[gentlemand]

I should think any app like GEMS could be the killer app if it took off on social media. I really wanted Streamium.io to blow Meerkat and Periscope out of the water, when it was

launched, but it turned out to be buggy, to say the least. If the final product was a bit more polished, it would have been the killer application for me.

It seems as though developers are rushing these apps to be the first, but they end up offering below par product, compared to their competition. 

All those apps are kinda cool but there's no shortage of free or much better established alternatives. They're solutions looking for a problem when a killer app has to be the polar opposite.

[addy boy]

killer app is the best option for bitcoin killer app saves lot of time with killer app we can pay online in less time we use killer app to pay some shopping sites that is the amazing feature of this app i like killer app very much. in my view killer app is a secure comfortable and fast way to exchange bitcoin to other traders.

[bitpump]

Personally, I would think that it would be pretty "killer" if bitcointalk had it's own app so the webpage could be converted into a more "mobile friendly" type of format.

Done.  See:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1194933.0;imode

[chennan]

Personally, I would think that it would be pretty "killer" if bitcointalk had it's own app so the webpage could be converted into a more "mobile friendly" type of format.

Done.  See:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1194933.0;imode

Lol, while that does help the "mobile friendly" aspect of that post... I'm talking about a "user friendly" way to derive that kind of formatting in a "user friendly" setting where someone would just have to login to bitcointalk through a downloaded app that has notification features... It's the thought that counts though.

[johnyj]

Bitcoin kills, quit bitcoin while you still can 

[maokoto]

Well, a killer app might be one that provided a facebook client in such a way that receiving a "like" earned you some satoshis. Then the app could have a "spend your satoshis" section, showing games (or other apps) you could buy with Bitcoin.


Just brainstorming

[Minecache]

Bitcoin is already killer in so many ways, why does there always have to be some magical future app that makes bitcoin finally "successful"?

That was not the question. The question refered to a killer app. Not Bitcoin in itself. Personally I believe that a killer app for Bitcoin would be one that brings it securely with ease of use to the masses. At present there are no guarantees that Bitcoin will be successful.