This week, the text messaging platform Cointext announced the general launch of its feature service that allows a person with a mobile phone to transact with Bitcoin Cash (BCH) without internet services. It uses a cellphone’s Short Message Service (SMS) protocol, and the beta release can now be tested throughout the USA, Canada, South Africa, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Bitcoin Cash users finally have the capacity to send BCH without an online connection through a mobile phone’s SMS protocol. On March 27, the programmers of the said company launched the public beta version of its stage. The lead developer of Cointext, and additionally the provider’s co-founder and CTO, Vin Armani, announced the launching.
“Cointext is the easiest and most powerful way to spread the use of Bitcoin Cash because it works with any type of mobile phone and you don’t need any knowledge of cryptocurrency to use it,” Armani explained on the launch day.
Because Cointext runs across the SMS communication coating for cellular phones, the platform’s pocket may do things than most conventional crypto-wallets cannot. For example, using Cointext BCH can be transmitted to a feature telephone (Nokia-type) so as to target developing countries. Nearly 2,000 people have signed up for Cointext during a soft start for private testing. The platform can be giving away complimentary BCH due to the contributions provided by the BCH community. While supplies last, Cointext is giving $0.50 in Bitcoin Cash to first time customers who text the term ‘CASH’ into the company’s access number. Additional Cointext command lines and instructions can be seen on the organization’s website.“Money, or currency, has always been the killer app for bitcoin, not merely a store of value,” Armani highlights.
“Cointext is delivering the original promise of permissionless, borderless money to the unbanked around the world.”
The development team explains that Cointext does not hold user capital, and all SMS trades are on the BCH blockchain. The SMS client cannot change or censor any transactions, also it can not recover funds when a user loses their contact number. The firm collects roughly $0.05 of BCH for sending messages, and the fee is always exactly the same.
Armani details that Cointext is likely to soon be searching for feedback through the beta trial of BCH users tinkering with the new tool. The cofounder says he expects the application can be utilized in 54 countries and will draw the interest of billions of people.
“If everything goes smoothly, we’ll launch the next wave of access numbers in April and May, including the first language translations,” Armani added.
