Hi!
Hope u guys are doing well, it's been a lot of time since the last update, in the last few months I have been doing some interesting work in HiveDebit and adding extra features that can help Hiveans to onboard people or receive money in other ways, but I have finished some of them and I'm close to finish other ones really important and interesting for you, but first of all I want to explain the bad things.
We Are Banned
Yes, we got banned in one country that is really important for Hive.
Nigeria.
But why this happened?
Well basically Nigeria have some interesting regulations about Cryptocurrencies and websites that are related to Cryptocurrencies, in theory websites like @v4v.app works there, but in this case our SEO and some words/content that we have in the website is prohibited in Nigeria, we can get unbanned if we get some legal papers and we get regulated.
People like @calebmarvel01 is not being able to use HiveDebit because the government have block them to use HiveDebit.
What's the solution Mr. Jan?
Easy, we got regulated, end.
Nah just kidding we do it in other ways, but Caleb is going to use HiveDebit no matter what.
Android App
Android Apps can not be traced or blocked like a website on the internet, so once I knew HiveDebit was getting blocked in Nigeria I started developing the HiveDebit App for Android Devices, this will reduce lags on slow devices like some POS or old devices with NFC, also it will include a new feature!
You are going to be able to tap between phones as we want to do with iphones, just take your Android App and use your HiveDebit virtual card and pay to other phone, we have virtualized HiveDebit, this means that if you don't have a NFC Card to use, you can use your phone!
But Mr.Jan this is really really unsafe ultra riskiy 100% 1 link.
no.
Instead of you sending information to other device, the POS/Other Android device, will send you an invoice, so the information that will be in the air would be like:
Username: jthomasewsky
amount: 10
currency: HBD
memo: pls-someone-give-me-a-cherokee
there's no going to be any kind of private data flying around there, 100% secure.
What happened with iOS?
Nothing, I resign c ya.
Well basically I got ultra KYCed and now Apple have someone from apple development living in my house so they can verify I'm a real human, they asked for my passport, id, driver license, fingerprint, foot fingerprint, receipt of light, gas, a receipt from KFC, and after submitting all that data I received my Apple Developer license and I have an advanced iOS App that is basically all that you need to receive payments through NFC, so it's done but I'm not going to release it yet, I'm adding more stuff to it so you can be amazed by it, I know it's amazing that now you can use ur iphone to receive hivedebit card, but I want you to be ultra amazed.
Lightning!
Bitcoiners have the Bitcoin Lightning Card, Old People have American Express, Cool people have a Jeep Cherokee, sorry, a HiveDebit card with a Jeep Cherokee on it.
But for bitcoiners it doesn't matter if you have a cool design in your HiveDebit card, what it matters is if you are using Bitcoin, that's why now you can go HiveDebit.com and create an Invoice and Receive a Bitcoin Lightning Card!
I'll submit a video, it's like receiving a HiveDebit Card, you just need to push a different button and the HBD will be in your account.
NTAG 424
The NTAG 424 Cards are better for this NFC uses but the thing is, why you would want one of those? We are not changing our standards but we are going to offer you a great feature, if you get a NTAG 424 Card you will be able to have Lightning and Hive in the same card, this means you can pay to a ONLY BITCOIN POS, or a HiveDebit POS.
Amazing right?
But Mr.Jan I'm way too smart and I don't want to use bitcoin lightning cards, I'm forced to use it?
no mista, only get a 215-216 NFC Card and keep enjoying HiveDebit with HBD!
Sponsor/Invite
I think u have seen the websites or services where you can send a link to a friend and your friend can create an account in that website/service/game, well we thought about it and I created the Sponsor system where you can go to HiveDebit.com, push Sponsor and then Invite, put your username and the amount of accounts that you want to sponsor, you are going to grant authority to a HiveDebit account per X amount of accounts that you want to create, so if you want to create 5 accounts HiveDebit account will be only allowed to create 5 accounts and then you can remove the authority or leave it there and renew your link.
Once you have your link you only need to send it to someone and he will only need to put a username, push a button and boom account created copy keys and put them in keychain and done, no more extra steps.
Now, if you are a bit old I'm sure u have met the faucets, websites where you can withdraw some money from a website with limits, well I made a tool where you can just create your faucet and choose how much it can be withdraw from your faucet per user.
Go try it!
I hope u like the new features we adding and hope you enjoy the next ones!
Remember to eat pancakes use HiveDebit and send links with accounts for your friends.
I'm working on v2 of @v4vapp it won't make an external difference at first but if you think you can build any of your stuff into my front end (or if you want to build directly with my Lightning APIs just get in touch with me!).