Analysis
Centralized communication apps share one crucial feature: They crash often. Cointelegraph investigates to see if decentralization can offer a solution.
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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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As WhatsApp goes down once again, there are a number of alternative platforms that are popular alternatives in the cryptocurrency space.
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LINE Pay said it was considering adding other cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ether to its payments options in the future
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While blockchain messengers stand to mitigate many of the privacy issues posed by their centralized counterparts, they still have their fair share of unignorable issues.
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The Blockscan Chat service enables users to message each other via their Ethereum wallet addresses.
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The new feature will allow Discord users to actively participate in upcoming crypto initiatives such as NFTs, Web 3.0 and token adoption.
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According to the project, one of the pushes for its development was Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin encouraging developers to consider non-financial applications for DeFi.
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Signal has published user feedback from its beta integration with MobileCoin, which saw users complain about the volatility and transaction fees related to MOB.
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The messaging app project was aimed at avoiding third-party data harvesting.
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Encrypted messaging app Signal has started accepting donations in 12 cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ether.
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Rumors are circulating in Iran that authorities already have access to messages on WhatsApp, one of the few unblocked platforms in the country.
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“Bitcoin is neutral like cash, and can’t discriminate between good and bad,” said Gladstein.
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“We are not selling Telegram – neither in part, nor in full,” Telegram CEO Pavel Durov promises.
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Telegram’s built-in contact import feature was exploited to leak the personal data of millions of users onto the darknet.
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Telegram’s digital resistance in Russia will contribute to further anti-censorship efforts in countries like China and Iran, Pavel Durov says.
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