Introducing Group Payments with GetGems!

GetGems Development Update #15, July 26, 2015

Hello everyone,

We are very excited about all the new features that have been built into the latest version of GetGems (Android Build 2.3 (463) and iOS 1.1.9.) We are sure you are going to enjoy them. This past week we also introduced Julia for Telegram users. The response has been overwhelming.

Currency Screen

Group Payments

(Android and iOS)

This new version presents a very cool feature — Group payments which enables you to easily send BTC/Gems value to any number of people in a chat group. In the Currency Screen , you can choose to send a value to each user or divide a value to the selected users.

Recipient Screen

Right in the chat window you can identify the chat participants you want to transfer value to, for example: “@KingJames @Messi — 10 Gems” as shown in the Recipient Screen

The feature will let you select GetGems users only to receive Gems.

Tip Screen

Tip Payments

(Android and iOS)

Here is another awesome feature just added that is a great way to introduce your friends and family to Digital Currency. Now you can Tip a chat participant for a comment they have made. Tap on a comment and hit Tip. The Tip will be shown as a “reply” to a message. When the Tip is submitted everyone in the group will know who tipped and for what the Tip was. If you like typing you can simply reply to a comment by typing “10 Gems” or “100 Bits” and select the recipient(s) of your Tip.

Sticker Tip Payments (Android only — iOS to follow)

We’ve added the GetGemsTips sticker pack. For a GetGems user, this pack represents a value. You can now send users a Beer, Chocolate or any other sticker you see. Each sticker is represented by a dollar value but exchanged to Gems by the current exchange rate. For example, send a Chocolate from the sticker selection and $1 worth of Gems are sent plus the sticker to show the value.

GetGems Tips Sticker Pack

New ways to Earn Gems!

Rate GetGems App and Earn Gems

In this version we have added a few more ways to earn Gems. Rate App Bonus: Leave your feedback in comments and earn 1 Gem in the process (Android and iOS)

Facebook Connect

Facebook connect: Connect to GetGems with your facebook, invite friends with one click and get even more Gems when they sign up. (iOS only, Android to follow)

Faster GEMS and BTC Transactions (Android Only)

We constantly trying to improve the experience of the GetGems app. In this version we cut the transaction time almost in half, making transferring value even faster and easier.

Telegram update (Android only)

This version also includes the latest upgrade of Telegram code (3.1.1). Details are listed here.

Julia makes her debut

Telegram users received a pleasant surprise this past week with the introduction of Julia, a Telegram bot, (@GetGemsBot) that links Bitcoin, through a Coinbase account, directly to your Telegram and GetGems account. In addition to the basic commands GET BALANCE, SEND BITCOIN, and RECEIVE BITCOIN, users can now command to get PRICE, BUY Bitcoin and SELL bitcoin all from with their messaging app.

Thank You, Pavel Durov

Telegram Founder tweets to his 860,000 followers about Julia

Word spread like wildfire and then …

we saw this tweet from the creator of Telegram.

Beta Testers

Again thanks to the wonderful GetGems Beta Tester community who are working so hard to make GetGems the best messaging and wallet combination app. We are pleased that here are many new active members and we again invite anyone interested to join by clicking on this link for details.

See you on GetGems!

Daniel Peled — peled1986 — daniel@getgems.org