Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:19 am

Hi Paul, thanks for coming and doing the AMA! Also, congrats on the Glidera integration making your wallet a complete solution.



My question is what new and exciting things is Airbitz working on in the bitcoin space to take things to the next level? Also, is Airbitz working on anything to help with user adoption aside from the wallet (merchants, marketing, education, etc)?

Hi BitcoinXIO,We've got quite a few things in the pipe that will definitely help drive bitcoin adoption amongst the population of people of that don't even care about bitcoin. We fundamentally believe that bitcoin companies need to appeal to people's needs. Ideology only goes so far. To do that we'll be onboarding more buy/sell services to enable more countries and regions to acquire bitcoin. Then we'll be offering cool integrated services inside that app that allow people to use bitcoin in ways fiat just can't handle.Related to, but not directly utilizing bitcoin, we're also pushing the concept of Edge Security to help users secure data, other digital assets, and even private keys for authentication on their own device using a zero-knowledge, almost-zero-trust architecture. We're super excited about the potential of public/private key authentication so we've put in support for BitID into our platform.BitID uses private keys for bitcoin to authenticate users to websites. We encourage all webservice owners to incorporate BitID as a method of authentication as it provides not just a more secure method of authentication but also a more user friendly method as well. Airbitz, Mycelium, and Ledger all support BitID to let users authenticate with supporting websites.BitID could be the movement that puts a bitcoin wallet into the hands of millions of people that just want a more secure and easier way to authenticate. Then we can more easily get bitcoin into their hands.