A new study has identified 4,818 cryptocurrency pump-and-dump groups on popular messaging apps Telegram and Discord.
Messaging App News
Messaging apps or chat applications are platforms that enable the exchange of messages. Most messaging apps were originally social networking platforms, but they have vastly increased their functions over time. Today, messaging apps also enable chatbots, smart replies, voice and video calls, payments and conversational commerce. Messaging apps are the most popular software for smartphones today. However, even encrypted-messaging apps’ architectures make those applications centralized, with a place for censorship and the possibility of deleting data. Blockchain-based p2p messaging apps may become the new generation of messaging apps, with advanced security and reduced opportunities for censorship. Decentralized messaging apps are currently designed on several major blockchain platforms and have their own startups and ICOs too.
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Popular Japanese chat app LINE, which boasts a monthly user base of 200 million, seeks permission to launch a new cryptocurrency exchange
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In a time of increasing uncertainty about communications security, one blockchain based initiative is attempting to set the wrongs right.
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While traditional messengers have been falling like dominoes, we need a strong messenger platform like Crypviser that can protect us from prying eyes.
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by Joseph Young
Circle officially terminated its bitcoin trading services and launched a bitcoin blockchain-based remittance and messaging application to serve the unbanked.
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by Joseph Young
Snapchat and Skype, two of the world’s most widely utilized social media and messaging applications, have been criticized by Amnesty International for the lack ...
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by Joseph Young
Keybase, a cryptographic message and verification startup, has raised US$10.8 million in a Series A funding round
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by Joseph Young
According to mathematician Meni Rosenfeld, Israel is a Bitcoin “forerunner.” With large numbers of users in the country, the number of startups and merchants co...
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