<p>Portland-based Gliph has been building a secure, anonymous messaging app for two years without a strong use case for the technology. It's also done so while bootstrapping.</p><p>And then, as co-founder Rob Banagale put it, "bitcoin sailed in." When the virtual currency began to take off this year, the founders knew that they'd found an application for their technology.</p><p>"We knew identity and payments and transactions were important but how it was going to fit together we weren't sure," he says. "We just knew we needed to start at security and privacy and getting people to connect."</p><p>Bitcoin's potential for anonymous money transfer was the perfect use case for Gliph's technology. Banagale set to work building an anonymous social layer on top of a bitcoin payment transfer system. The result launches today.</p><p><a href="http://pandodaily.com/2013/05/17/gliph-joins-boost-vc-launches-bitcoin-messaging-and-payments-app/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10738429.htm">Gliph Makes Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Payments Simple - PRWeb</a> (PR Web (press release))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dEAiM3kUmkgJLcMhkZbXj6bbASPBM&ned=us">2 additional articles.</a></p>