Bitcoin Beach Wallet Renamed To Blink In Addition To Changes Aimed At Making The App Global

Blink’s sanction and features bespeak the project’s tendency to beryllium utilized by Bitcoin communities crossed the world.

The Bitcoin Beach Wallet has officially changed its sanction to “Blink” to amended bespeak its imaginativeness of becoming the champion instrumentality for “bottom-up Bitcoin adoption.” 

The wallet was initially launched successful 2020 successful El Salvador's El Zonte arsenic portion of the Bitcoin Beach project's extremity of creating a circular Bitcoin economy. The sanction alteration reflects the wallet's enlargement beyond its archetypal intended purpose. The wallet has grown to go a fashionable Lightning wallet for Bitcoin assemblage projects and Lightning enthusiasts worldwide.

Blink plans to alteration immoderate idiosyncratic to acceptable their section currency successful Q2 2023, making it easier for users to onboard and usage bitcoin. The wallet besides features in-app Bitcoin education, wherever users tin gain sats for learning astir Bitcoin's basics.

Blink besides has merchant features that marque it casual and flexible for businesses to person payments implicit Lightning and on-chain, including LN address, a Lightning currency register, and a printable wage code. Blink besides integrates Nostr, making it a go-to custodial wallet for tipping, investigating oregon traveling.

According to Blink's team, "the declared intent of becoming the champion instrumentality for bottom-up Bitcoin adoption has attracted tens of thousands of progressive users and galore requests for features that would summation inferior and accessibility crossed countries and cultures." The team's imaginativeness for Blink is for it to beryllium disposable successful each connection wherever there's a Bitcoin assemblage project.

The property merchandise sent to Bitcoin Magazine described however the wallet's sanction alteration is significant, arsenic its erstwhile acronym was “problematic.” Blink's caller sanction represents “speed and positivity,” and it volition pass with customers good earlier changing the sanction and icon of the app. According to the team, "the sanction Blink represents the glimmer successful the oculus of a idiosyncratic who conscionable received their archetypal sats. It's the embodiment of a transaction zapping crossed the world, connecting 2 radical who ne'er earlier could transmit worth to each other."