The mobile messaging app running “a worldwide community of filmmakers” adds bitcoin functionality to enhance profits for digital content creators. 

According to Wiper, “filmmakers aren't given the right tools to build an audience. And audiences spend more time trying to find a movie to watch than watching movies.” The app is claimed to solve both problems. 

Available for iPhones and Androids at $4.99 per month, Wiper allows users to upload their videos and to remove them whenever they want to. All videos are reviewed by the Wiped team. The films rated highly by either the team or the general public are featured and can receive awards and prizes. 

Thus, during the Wiper Winter Festival 2016, 180 films from 46 countries were featured and six winners from Lebanon, Spain, Sweden, Chile, US and Taiwan were chosen. The company claimed to have distributed thousands of dollars to individual filmmakers.

The payments are sent through Wiper built-in bitcoin wallets. According to the company, the users can send money to each other instantly, “as easily as they send a chat.” This feature allows users to make bitcoin payments to the creator of the content.

Wiper hopes this feature will maximize profits of the creators, as bitcoin payments are instantaneous and “far cheaper than conventional payment method”, states a Nasdaq article.

Wiper app was first created as a Whatsapp alternative enabling users to completely erase their messages from database and servers. The company claims that the main difference between Wiper and other messengers consists in “free secure calling, text messages you can erase from friends' phones, music streaming & sharing, and bitcoin payments.”

Earlier the company recieved $4.5 million in funding from its own co-founder, entrepreneur Michael Choupak.

Alexey Tereshchenko