[2016-07-18] iPayYou Allows Users to Send Bitcoin via Twitter

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“It has always been our goal to build iPayYou into the world’s easiest and most useful bitcoin wallet,” iPayYou founder Gene Kavner told CCN. “Until now, bitcoin has been difficult to use by almost anyone not hugely involved in the development of bitcoin.”

The first step was to enable customers to use an email address as the primary way to send payments to one another, while still supporting all traditional bitcoin payment mechanisms, Kavner said. “Now, adding the ability to pay someone by simply knowing their Twitter handle is another step for iPayYou to expand on its ease of use.”

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ipayyou-allows-users-to-send-bitcoin-via-twitter/

[DooMAD]

In one sense, it's great that companies are finding ways to make it easier for the masses to use Bitcoin.  But at the same time, it always seems to be the services that require users to place trust in the third party to store their private keys for them.  Ideally we want to find a balance between ease of use and trustless security. 

Is it just that it's more difficult to implement features like this in local Desktop wallets?  Or do the dev teams of the full client wallets just have some catching up to do?

[Das]

I sincerely hope that iPayYou is not going to compromise the security of its customers because Twitter was not built for financial transactions. How safe is your information flying over Twitter???

It's one thing to link your Twitter handle to your iPayYou account, it's another thing to pay via Twitter...