One of the greatest use-cases for the blockchain is recording history. Today it is easier than ever before to upload data permanently and immutably to the blockchain using bico.media, powered by Invisible Money Button. The blockchain we use is the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain. The blockchain is a nearly permanent data store. Data cannot be removed, and nodes are incentivized to store…
Last week week we held the first San Francisco + London BSV meetup. It was an online-only meetup joining both the San Francisco BSV Meetup and the London BSV Meetup, with support from the Bitcoin Association, Money Button, and Baemail. We had over 200 people in attendance. P2P Transactions with Money Button and Handcash Bitcoin is “peer-to-peer electronic cash”, and yet most…
Please also see our announcement for a full explanation of the new features for users. What is Invisible Money Button? Some companies want the ability to change the color of Money Button or to customize it in other ways. But the button has gone through extensive user testing and we are convinced the button is a very good solution for payments in…
Today we are happy to announce the launch of Invisible Money Button, which is a way for you to give permission to apps to automatically swipe Money Button for you. This makes it easier to use many apps such as social media, games, and data management. The new permissions system The centerpiece of Invisible Money Button is a new permissions system which…
Bitcoin was always intended to be sent peer-to-peer. Today we are happy to announce that Handcash and Money Button have partnered to implement a peer-to-peer transaction protocol between both services leveraging paymail as the naming and query system. All transactions between Handcash and Money Button are now sent peer-to-peer. See the corresponding announcement from Handcash. Also see the Coingeek press release. The…
Money Button users often forget their passwords and need to follow our “forgot password” process to recover their account. This process allows the user to prove ownership of their account by receiving an email. The user clicks a link in the email and their account is restored. Some users do not type in the right email address when they sign up, and…
Money Button believes in an “own your data” philosophy for the future of the internet to fix the surveillance capitalism model of the internet today. The default for data on the internet should be private and encrypted. If anyone earns money for the user’s data, it should be the user. Any other parties that earn money, such as social media applications like…
The vision for Money Button is to be the the world’s simplest payment system for websites and apps. It is easy for developers to install and easy for consumers to make payments. Central to this notion is the ability for users to be able to “log in with Money Button” into websites and apps. This is important to allow user actions to…
A peer-to-peer network is when people send information directly to one another with no intermediaries. There are two peer-to-peer networks in Bitcoin. The most famous one is the peer-to-peer network between miners. But the most important one is the peer-to-peer network between users. Miners The miners have a peer-to-peer network which they use to transmit blocks to each other. They are incentivized…
Money Button has always had strong support for on-chain data. We were the first wallet to enable large OP_RETURN data sizes, and we were the first wallet to produce 128 MB sized blocks. Today we have increased our support further by enabling the new standard transaction type which we refer to as “safe” data outputs enabled by the new Bitcoin SV node…
