bitcoin payment focus
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From the Start• Seoul Bitcoin Meetup • Sharing addresses• Paying new users
Unfriendly payment process
Bitcoin UsabilityIsolating & anonymous
Needs more local focus
Using addresses & QR codes
Security vs usability
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Holla Me!• User profiles • Avoid QR scanning & addresscopy/pasting • Public addresses made public• Transact easily with new users
Social Payment
Chat — Interact & transactFeed — See who’s transactingFind — Discover usersMap — Bitcoin map
Payments are a social interaction
Business Managment
B.A. Philosophy from University
of South Carolina
Paul
United States
Development & Maintenance
MSc Majored in
Computer Science Science from Yonsei
University
Iran
Ali
Development & Maintenance
MSc Majored in
Computer Science University of Canterbury
New Zealand
Ben
Iran
Marketing & Social Media
Majored in Information Technology Multimedia University
Momed
Design & UI
Double Majored in Game &
Graphic Design from Edith
Cowen
Adrian
Australia
• We are a social payment platform
• Want to make payments easier and fun
• By merging social media features in to payments
bitholla.io
Imagine payments as easy as sending instant messages!
Seoul Bitcoin Meetup in Korea - Found paying each other wasn’t easy
Wanted a user friendly social payment app
Brainstorm ideas to fix problem
Testing app amongst Seoul Bitcoin meetup
Released on google play
Released on reddit
Media coverage
Refine Bitholla
Obtain seed funding and/or incubation
Grow users to 100k
Develop commercial payment and extra features
2014
2015
2016