Bitpay release Bitpay wallet App Windows Phone

[Elena_Rodriguez]

BitPay-the Global Payment Gateway service provider has now rolled out with a new feature.
It has now introduced a BitPay Wallet App for Windows Phone which is integrated with prepaid Visa Debit Card.
Source - Coinpedia.org

[Sniper44]

it is not their wallet app that has been around for a long time, i think back in 2016 (https://blog.bitpay.com/introducing-bitpay-app/) the new thing is only for "windows phones" so you may want to change the subject a bit.

on a related note, has anyone ever used it and if so what features does it offer

[ImGenius]

BitPay-the Global Payment Gateway service provider has now rolled out with a new feature.
It has now introduced a BitPay Wallet App for Windows Phone which is integrated with prepaid Visa Debit Card.
Source - Coinpedia.org

sorry to ask but im just not familiar with bitpay.. is this some sort of a wallet where you can also store your bitcoins?

[Elena_Rodriguez]

it is not their wallet app that has been around for a long time, i think back in 2016 (https://blog.bitpay.com/introducing-bitpay-app/) the new thing is only for "windows phones" so you may want to change the subject a bit.

on a related note, has anyone ever used it and if so what features does it offer

Yes, thank you
Mentioned in the body already! now just edited subject

[Duzter]

Bitpay have been in the intermediary service for a long time. It has connected to top corporate to accept bitcoin as payment for services and other business. The same is converted and provided to the corporate in terms of fiat. Now they getting into the wallet service that too specifically for Windows seems good in some point making transactions easier.

[LTU_btc]

Has anybody still using Windows Phone? I thought it's already dead and they aren't releasing new devices and not updating it. Maybe BitPay should release app for BlakBerry also
Their app for Android and iPhone devices already realeased long time ago and it's enough, because these systems have 96% market share.

[gentlemand]

A noble gesture, but Windows phone is now in its death throes. Perhaps it'll be revived somewhat by a Surface phone if it ever arrives.

Still, they also released Copay on Windows phone which as far as I could tell was the only decent wallet ever available for it.

[Dudeperfect]

I am not using windows phone but this move should be appreciated. I see high potential in the business model of the Bitpay and it is exactly substituting Paypal like payment services with a better solution of providing bitcoin as a payment method. Even though they have significantly less volumes as compared to the other leading payment processors, I am sure in next few years they will match that volume.

[lumeire]

A noble gesture, but Windows phone is now in its death throes. Perhaps it'll be revived somewhat by a Surface phone if it ever arrives.

Still, they also released Copay on Windows phone which as far as I could tell was the only decent wallet ever available for it.

Somehow I think it's unnecessary move from them. They should have just kept on improving their service.

[eckmar]

A waste of time from them. It's better if they invested that money somewhere else. No one is really using windows phone anymore.

[franky1]

A waste of time from them. It's better if they invested that money somewhere else. No one is really using windows phone anymore.

in third world/developing countries they DO use windows phones.
also by having the whole payment/wallet/exchange to fiat under one roof is a service the third world developing countries need.
after all paying $2(40 hours min wage there) is impractical to use onchain tx's and having to then move funds around again to cash-in/out.

so there is actually a niche for this... (once you put first world mindset to the side)

but this niche is only created by them bs cartel removing fee controls onchain to make such side services like LN/coinbase/xapo preferable.
which is just re-inventing corporate bank control all over again requiring second party agreement/management

[stompix]

A waste of time from them. It's better if they invested that money somewhere else. No one is really using windows phone anymore.

in third world/developing countries they DO use windows phones.
also by having the whole payment/wallet/exchange to fiat under one roof is a service the third world developing countries need.
after all paying $2(40 hours min wage there) is impractical to use onchain tx's and having to then move funds around again to cash-in/out.

so there is actually a niche for this... (once you put first world mindset to the side)

but this niche is only created by them bs cartel removing fee controls onchain to make such side services like LN/coinbase/xapo preferable.
which is just re-inventing corporate bank control all over again requiring second party agreement/management

The total market shares is between 1%-2%.
And people in developing countries would think 100 times before going through all those services.

Remember Kipochi ?
It should have overthrown Mpesa since 2013 when it was launched and....2015 when it went bankrupt.

And just like you mentioned I don't like at all the approach.
So not only you're going to store your bitcoin with a 3rd party but... attached visa card?
What the hell happened to being your own banker?

[franky1]

A waste of time from them. It's better if they invested that money somewhere else. No one is really using windows phone anymore.

in third world/developing countries they DO use windows phones.
also by having the whole payment/wallet/exchange to fiat under one roof is a service the third world developing countries need.
after all paying $2(40 hours min wage there) is impractical to use onchain tx's and having to then move funds around again to cash-in/out.

so there is actually a niche for this... (once you put first world mindset to the side)

but this niche is only created by them bs cartel removing fee controls onchain to make such side services like LN/coinbase/xapo preferable.
which is just re-inventing corporate bank control all over again requiring second party agreement/management

The total market shares is between 1%-2%.

there is actually a niche for this... (once you put first world mindset to the side)

And people in developing countries would think 100 times before going through all those services.

... yea like they think much about VODAFONE, yep vodafone manage mpesa
bitpay is basically going to be the vodafone credit(mpesa) rival

Remember Kipochi ?
It should have overthrown Mpesa since 2013 when it was launched and....2015 when it went bankrupt.

And just like you mentioned I don't like at all the approach.
So not only you're going to store your bitcoin with a 3rd party but... attached visa card?
What the hell happened to being your own banker?

being your own banker is being eroded away due to the devs who removed the fee controls of bitcoin and just shouted "just pay more" slowing causing the only utility of bitcoin to be done via 2nd /third party mechanisms