Radar app integrates Signal messaging with Bitcoin Lightning payments

Radar Chat's seamless Bitcoin transactions could revolutionize digital payments, challenging traditional apps and enhancing financial privacy. The post Radar Chat wants to make sending Bitcoin as easy as texting your group chat appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Radar Chat Wants to Make Sending Bitcoin as Easy as Firing Off a Text appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In brief Radar Chat launched Tuesday, combining encrypted messaging with Bitcoin payments. The app uses the Signal Protocol but was developed independently from Signal. Radar says users remain in control of their Bitcoin, which is sent via the Lightning Network. A new app from the team behind Cake Wallet brings Bitcoin payments directly into private messaging. Launched Tuesday, Radar Chat combines end-to-end encrypted messaging with self-custodial Bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network, allowing users to send Bitcoin via text messages without having to switch apps or copy wallet addresses. “The idea behind Radar is that the people we talk to and the people we pay are often the same people, yet messaging and payments still live in separate places,” Radar Chat and Cake Wallet founder Vikrant Sharma told Decrypt. Available on iOS and Android, Radar—which the company clar

Built on Signal’s open-source technology, Radar Chat combines encrypted messaging with self-custodial Bitcoin payments via Lightning Network.

X's strategic enhancements in messaging and financial services could redefine user engagement and challenge existing fintech and social media paradigms. The post X rolls out encrypted messaging overhaul as X Money inches closer to launch appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Signal warns Canada exit may follow lawful access bill appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Signal has warned that it may leave Canada if the country’s proposed lawful access bill forces the company to weaken its privacy tools.  Summary Signal says it may leave Canada rather than weaken its end-to-end encryption promises to users. Bill C-22 remains in committee as lawmakers review lawful access powers and metadata rules. Meta, Apple and Windscribe have also raised privacy and security concerns over the proposal publicly. The warning came from Udbhav Tiwari, Signal’s vice president of strategy and global affairs. Tiwari said Signal “would rather pull out of the country” than break the privacy promises made to users. He also warned that Bill C-22 “could potentially allow hackers” to target weaknesses built into electronic systems. Canada says the bill supports law enforcement Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, 2026, seeks to update Canada’s rules for digital data acce

Signal may leave Canada over Bill C-22, as privacy groups and tech firms warn the lawful access bill could weaken encrypted messaging.