This App Wants Bitcoin Payments to Feel Like Sending a Text
The post This App Wants Bitcoin Payments to Feel Like Sending a Text appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. DataReportal’s 2026 mid-year report found 93.6% of online adults use chat apps or messenger platforms each month. WhatsApp users open the app more than 20 times per day on Android and spend an average of 59 minutes per day inside the app. Payments have followed the same mobile pattern. The World Bank’s Global Findex 2025 found 79% of adults worldwide now have a financial account, while 84% of adults in low- and middle-income countries own a mobile phone, and 3 billion have smartphones. This creates a product opening for private chat-based payments. People already use messaging apps to coordinate dinner bills, creator support, gifts, small business payments, and peer-to-peer transfers, but the final payment often requires a separate wallet, app, address, invoice, or custodial account. Radar Chat, a new open-source messaging app from the team behind Cake Wallet, brings Bitcoin Lightn