{"id":1040,"date":"2016-09-15T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holytransaction.com\/2016\/09\/circle-payments-through-imessage.html"},"modified":"2022-01-26T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:33:32","slug":"circle-payments-through-imessage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/circle-payments-through-imessage.html","title":{"rendered":"Circle Payments through iMessage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blockchain company <b>Circle<\/b> revealed its new project that allows users to send <b>payments through Apple\u2019s iMessage.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These available Circle Payments are in <b>dollars, euros, pound and bitcoins<\/b>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project began in June when <b>Apple announced that it would open to third-party developers<\/b> for iMessage.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>&#8220;We decided to jump on it. We had been planning to build out a model for app-less payments using Circle that would work in all the places people communicate and interact,\u201d<\/i> explained Circle co-founder <b>Jeremy Allaire.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Allowing payments available on the most used app worldwide could help it have the largest transaction volume and become a payment platform that not only leverages the bitcoin blockchain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>&#8220;This is going to be a big part of the future, it\u2019s all tied into the how do we make money work, the way the Internet works. 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