its pretty early on Israeli time....im sure they will see the problem in the next few hours.

Like I said i'm not 100% with this info. But reading this.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/758004.msg12001122#msg12001122



means you need to access an sms for your mobile wallet. But you could use anyones phone, open the wallet then send the coins to your counterpart wallet....or wherever.

Still works for me...


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The app has been removed, its hard to know the reason with google play because they don't provide any details. We sent them an email and should receive a response from them within 72 hours.

how many downloads Gemz have?
They got more than 10K in week.
https://twitter.com/start_chat

What device are you running it on?  I'm seeing the same problem on the Xoom tablet.


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NOt to mention Max Kaiser has his own TV show and has been pumping startcoin and related things on twitter forever.

All Gems needs is a few well placed media articles to intice people to try the app. Which won't be that hard cause Getgems is a news worthy story, ie social messengering that pays its users, it's a unique idea that would be of interest to any casual user of social apps. Once everything is running like a charm I'm sure the marketing department has some great plans to get the word out. It's a personal belief but I actually think effort to convince the Bitcoin community about Getgems is slightly wasted energy, they are very dogmatic about Bitcoin and often are anti alts plus the alt community is too small. Outside the gulag of cryto is where this app needs to get. In fact talking about Bitcoin and coins etc prob will turn the people off. Just keep,to the simple story of giving social back to the people etc.


I know nothing but I wonder if the removal from Google is from disgruntled guy who has a problem with the code not being completely open source. I don't understand the subject of open source but a couple guys on reddit seemed upset about it.

I was thinking the same thing about the open source thing.

GetGems has sold itself on privacy, but the only way you can be secure in that is if the code itself can be reviewed for flaws by the public. It's also an app that people hold money in. In order to be secure in that, it needs to be possible to review. Closed source code has higher potential vulnerable to both external actors like the NSA (or Mossad, given that the team is based in Tel Aviv), hackers trying to steal your Bitcoin, and even exit scamming. The whole point of Bitcoin is to not have to trust external actors, there's no way I can recommend this as a Bitcoin wallet to my friends until I can be comfortable in it's privacy and security credentials.

Aside from that, it's in violation of the license given by Telegram.