BB Convert has received a New Years upgrade. In addition to converting government currencies to Bytes, you can now also convert them to Blackbytes and custom assets!

It remains extremely easy to use, just select the currency and the amount. For example, see how much $1 is in Blackbytes.

For custom assets, you can enter custom rate and share the link or even peg the price to bytes (with `price_bytes` parameter). More info can be found on the Github repository.

This may sound minor, but from a usability standpoint its a significant improvement. Before this upgrade it was a pain to work out the USD price of Blackbytes. Blackbytes are not listed on Coinmarketcap nor any similar website so that wasn’t an option.

Further, the Blackbyte total supply is 2.1111 million Gigablackbytes, so in order to work out the USD rate you needed to do some manual USD-Bytes-Blackbytes calculations each time. Not complicated, but not user friendly.

Want to send $1 of Blackbytes to someone via Whatsapp/Telegram without knowing their wallet address?

Use BB Convert to find out the amount and one of the blue buttons to copy the value to your clipboard (depending which unit display you have selected for Blackbytes in your wallet).

copy to clipboard

2. Paste the value into your wallet, generate a Blackbyte textcoin and send as an attachment on Whatsapp/Telegram.

You have just sent an anonymous currency peer-to-peer without knowing the recipient’s address. Try doing that with Monero or Zcash (hint, you can’t).