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I understand this is some kind of service, but I think this is important news, so I post in main board.

Got this email:


I had been using Fiverr for years, that will now stop.

I'll be using https://www.xbtfreelancer.com/ instead.

I invite all freelancers to join that service, I'll make regular requests.

i would've been far more interested had they paid out in bitcoin. we're probably gonna see plenty more of this. not many are willing to spend.

Did they give a reason why they are not accepting btc anymore? I really want to know. With services like bitpay I don't really see a reason why they would not unless fees are too high.  ??? ??? ???

admin? some guy has to watch over it occasionally. maybe it didnt even pay that wage.

Yes.  They said it was because Bitcoin is now dead.

You're right I think it's news.  Fiverr has been around long enough to warm their seat though.  They mentioned Fiverr credits, why use somebody elses digital currency when you can just roll your own. And I bet you pay cash for those credits or earn them which is a much safer bet and produces better more controlled margins than some volatile currency.

Bitcoin is obviously not dead!

But if we want the business world to take Bitcoin seriously we must demand that the main chain not be throttled or crippled. Satoshi originally made the blocksize unlimited and moved it to 1MB as a temporary measure only.

When companies like Circle and Fiverr see the gross mismanagement of the core, they probably have doubts about the long-term viability of the currency.

when it comes to bitcoin's actual functionality i'm gonna go with the opinion of the developers rather than a few companies who have little or no clue. it may not be ideal as it stands but they're the ones who know it inside out.

and i doubt fiverr cares about technicalities. they just won't be getting enough business to bother.

Well they are ridiculous.  I don't understand these corporations, like Circle and others, who give up on bitcoin.  Bitcoin is nowhere near dead.  Warren Buffett is approaching death faster than bitcoin is.  Bitcoin has just been birthed.  So to hell with them and their like!  Viva la BITCOIN!!!

How come bitcoin is dead? Why you don't said it when the price drops on $400? And its $900 and you'll say it's dead? Come on...

And to the OP this is a news indeed, why do they give up on bitcoin already. Are they give a doubt to this currency that this coin will be vanished in the future?

Hilarious, dead? Bitcoin is 900 usd and it is much stronger than before, we know bitcoin is more and more popular in mainstream society in recent years.

Their loss, maybe they are planning to launch their own shitcoin instead of using a legit cryptocurrency like bitcoin, maybe they have realized that they are retarded and can't handle APIs to change their bitcoins into fiat after receiving them or just are too lazy.

I know fluctuations could be annoying for businesses but when we talk about BTC they should know that increase in value over time is inevitable.

It's not a technicality when transaction fees are skyrocketing. Paypal is looking more attractive to merchants

Satoshi was a decent developer and he thought the block size should be unlimited. If you do the research, you'll see the 1MB was not supposed to be static. It was a temporary solution and is no longer needed.

All this SegWit and Lightning code might be fine and dandy running on an open chain. Choking off the main chain is hurting the growth and adoption of the currency. It should be 2MB at a minimum.

You may be dead. They may be dead. Only Bitcoin will never die  ::)

LOL, see you on XBTFreelancer.com sir.

What Bitcoin is dead? The Fiverr management doesnt understand or having a small knowledge about cryptocurrency. They didnt realize that the bitcoin payment they are receiving now might double, tripple, or may be a dozen times higher once bitcoin is accepted from all countries.

maybe fiverrr don't know nothing about bitcoin so they said bitcoin is dead. as the largest freelance sites, its not good for them to not accepting bitcoin but all decision is from them. maybe we need to trying with xbtfreelancer as the other freelance site. i hope in future fiverr will realize and will add bitcoin as their payments again.

Show us a source for that or it's made up FUD. It seems like out of the blue they stopped accepting it so maybe they just weren't getting enough business from it? It's either that or they didn't want to have to deal with taxes and bitcoins. It gets complicated.

I believe you're trolling. Bitcoin skyrocketed last month, so it's improbable that any company would openly say something that controversial and stupid.
If they are worried about changing value, that's ok. There are many others that aren't.

Great choice!

Was Fiverr really a big deal for Bitcoin? It is very easy to copy their business model and create a Bitcoin based service after that. The site the OP gave us should market and advertise their service more.

AFAIK like 10 people used Bitcoin on Fiverr. Nobody really cares

This is a huge blow to Bitcoin users to as many of us. Use fiver for services and since they were accepting Bitcoins it was very useful. Though I feel this is a minor setback thanks to link given by op, I had first seen the site here on Bitcointalk.org and have browsed to it, it's looks nice and easy to use. Now will be using it more extensively. Guess this will soon over take fiver in the long run as most of btc users shall shift here.

Yea, this is definitely a very unfortunate situation. Fiverr seem like a great business to use bitcoin, especially since it was low cost, and u can freelance any service. not sure why fiverr would stop using bitcoin as payment method.

Got the same mail. Didn't they charge a ridiculous fee for accepting bitcoins anyway? The reason behind that decision was a sudden price change of BTC

Fiverr gives a security for the transaction between the project provider and the one who does the work for him. So people can make contact through Fiverr and make a separate transaction escrow for our needs as Fiverr has revealed the statement that they no more accept bitcoin.

And ofcourse it's not profitable for fiver because of unstable price

This is not really reassuring news for the bitcoin community because it has been accepting it for along time to make payment for workers of their services.
Now all the sudden they stop without giving any reason to do this?
This is a very peculiar thing to do when most of their users are comfortable with paying in bitcoins to have a job done.
No official press release? Or they just don't think the bitcoin community deserves one when they got to become a bigger company? They are so full of themselves right now. :-\

It might be because of the high volatility, because merchants do not like high price fluctuations in currencies to operate. If they worked through a payment processors, they would have had to pay a additional fee, to get the bitcoins converted to cash. Fiverr has always been my favorite place to visit, when I had banner Ads made, but I have to look for something else now, because I always paid in bitcoin. ^hmmmm^

Fiverr is a loser, they are just giving flimsy excuses to deny Bitcoin users and I think rival freelancers that pays in Bitcoin are going to lure their members away. It's shocking as all would be freelancers look up to them for most of the online jobs but we live to see what might be the ramifications of their decision.

These are very sad news, it doesn't really help in bigger adoption and wider knowledge about bitcoin. Another bad thing is that Fiverr is a place for "virtually active" people, which means there is a higher chance these people will really understand its advantages (comparing to lets say people who buy newspapers in a local shop). It's a missed opportunity and I wonder why the management of Fiverr decided to stop the possibility of payments in bitcoin.
Maybe it's because of bitcoins volatility? That people are rather paid by something more stable? ???

are business really changing their mind so easily based on the bitcoin value? no wonder the adoption is still stuck at the same point

if they choose payment gateway they should not worry about the value, they will dump as soon as they get their btc from their customers

Yes, it is very sad news for Bitcoin. In Fiverr there are millions of small-scale business people are active on this website, this sudden decision will effect on bitcoin value. The reason is silly of course the bitcoin price is not stable everyone knows this fact. Anyhow because of this sudden decision, the Bitcoin lost it's value and the PayPal will become more popular in Fiverr website.

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The strange thing is, that bitcoin value is currently pretty high. Yes, it experienced a big correction dump, but now we are again around 900 USD and if you compare it to the value six months or a year ago, we are almost on double. And you don't make decision like this overnight, so I think there must be something else, what is behind it. ???

Dead from the perspective of their business, I guess. They see that the people in their market who use bitcoin for payment method is decreasing lately so they might have made a decision to no longer accept it.
There's nothing wrong if they thought that it might give them some benefits, what we can do?

I am not fimiliar with Fiverr myself, so I can't say how they were accepting Bitcoin payments, but in general, the volatility shouldn't be a concern if merchants accept Bitcoin through BitPay for example. If you compare the business plan of BitPay that only takes 1% in fees, then it's still a far better and cheaper payment tool for merchants than Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, etc. But I am not sure what exactly their reason is for ditching Bitcoin as payment option. It could be that it wasn't being used as much as they were hoping for, and thus they thought it's not worth to continue supporting Bitcoin payments. Or it may have something to do with regulations. Either way, this offers chances to competitors to take over their Bitcoin users.

It was surprise for to hear that Fiverr doesn't accept Bitcoins. But it has nothing to do with the things happening in Bitcoin community. I only know that businesses are not very inclined to accept payments in Bitcoin because of the price volatility issue. If they have real time conversion to the fiat money, it is ok, but if they don't, they are just moving out of it.

 but why did they have to do that, that's very bad.

They dont even need to provide any reason whatsoever. Its their service, their site and their rules and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The only thing left is to migrate to another platform that accepts our own choice of currency and OP has rightly given us an option. As unfortunate this might sound since they now have their own "credit" I guess this is part of the challenges bitcoin will face along the line. My hope is that it will survive the onslaught against it.

thats some wrong decision by them, gonna get the market down

If they care about their users / customers, they should communicate with them. If you do such a big change without any explanation, it doesn't send a good message to the users.
And as you said, then they should expect that a part of the users will move to a different service, the xbtfreelancer is a good choice for example.

First of all, Fiverr has no obligation to give a reason - businesses frequently add and/or drop payment methods. Perhaps it was just too few Fiverr users who accepted bitcoin and the company just didn't want to bother.

If freelancers still want btc, they only need to move platform. People mention here XBT several times, go for that.

Frankly, it's a loss to Fiverr and this decision can't affect bitcoin long term - not that it ever has.

This is probably due to no chargeback issue. I see no other reason why would they stop using BTC.

I guess this is the reason, unlike paypal where users can charge back so decided to stop using Bitcoin as a security measure to stop scammers.

Now we can start to question if BTCBTCBTC's adoption is really growing, given their reason of 'Lack of interest.'

One of the main attractions of using Bitcoin before the main chain was "throttled" was low transaction fees. By choking off the main chain, the developers are allowing a fee market to develop.

Now that the fees are no longer small in comparison to traditional payment processors like Paypal, it follows that consumer interest would decline at the POS transaction level.

Fiverr no longer accepts bitcoin possibly due to the sudden volatility that happened a few weeks ago. It possibly made a bad impact to their business or they see it a threat to their profit and that is why they are erasing bitcoin as part of their payment scheme. But if many fiverr customers will combined together and ask them to bring back bitcoin then hopefully they will bring it back.

Wonder how much business fiverr will lose over this.

Is there a way to reliably measure?

Stop lying and making things up post after post just to get paid from your signature campaign. There was never a big interest in Bitcoin use with Fiverr. That is precisely the reason why they have stopped accepting Bitcoins.

And so the death of bitcoin's microtransaction economy begins.


Unless they're going to release their figures we wouldn't know.

I don't think they will lose the business because most of the people still they can use either PayPal or credit cards.


What kind of chargeback? Using bitcoin people can't charge back anything. What I think is if you use a bitcoin option and if you don't use coin base then the transaction will take few minutes to confirm or sometimes even more and I too face this issue. They might have received may support request about these transaction delay issues and thought it is not suitable for their business.

I have just got their email about this issue. It is really sad to hear about this. Fiverr can be considered as one of the biggest Bitcoin support and now they gone. Bitcoin will be affected a lot after this event. Hope that everything will be back to normal and there will be another merchant accept Bitcoin, perhaps it can be Amazon

You're right. Fiverr removing Bitcoin as a payment method will have no effect on Bitcoin.


Fiverr Usage of bitcoin was minimal and thus, We have nothing to worry about it. One of the reason they gave was that , There was "Lack of Interest" From the freelancers as very little percentage of them took advantage of the bitcoin payment method. Well, Fiverr can add Bitcoin payment method again So I'm not entirely sure that they'll stop Bitcoin payments Permanently


Currently SEOclerks still use Bitcoin as a payment method and I don't see them stopping it anytime soon like Fiverr

When a company provides platform to freelance, they should take care of needs of people. Autocratic decisions are never good for site especially one like fiverr whose success totally depended upon members.
Well! It is never easy to adapt bitcoin in business because of its volatility!

Comparatively bitcoin is stable, it just showed some peak but not fallen beyond its previous progresses.
I guess I do not find any big differences with fiverr's this sudden policy change as they were not paying me in bitcoins. Only business people was able to buy gigs through bitcoins, not members did get paid in bitcoins.

bitcoin can still strive without that payment option on fiverr after all you can just outsource people(if your'e hiring) then talk with them if they want bitcoin as a payment then or get bitcoin as a payment if your working I think your client would find a way to pay you bitcoin if your valuable to him and also if hes interested in bitcoin too.

I'm sure that Fiverr just did not have enough users who use bitcoin as a payment. I guess they did the higher cost of maintenance.
Price of bitcoin, has not too much important because he immediately changed to Fiat money. You pay $5 and no matter how it is in bitcoin.
also excuse that bitcoin is dead is for small children

I need to write a plugin for SMF that provides users with an "I'm only writing this fluff to get my signature displayed" ignore option. Sometimes, I get halfway through the post, then realize it's just a bunch of random thoughts strung together.

I would sell it on Fiverr, but they don't accept bitcoin anymore. :'(

From the way I see it, its an unfortunate event happening at this point but I dont see the effect being obvious because if it had been, I am sure the news would have been all around town being the reason for the fall in the price of bitcoin. At the same time, Fiverr represent the largest site for freelancing and if they say they are not accepting a currency, I guess there is nothing we can do about it only for us to look for alternatives to do freelancing jobs.

Yeah, it is bad that they stopped accepting bitcoins. I used to order couple of articles per month for my blog from Fiverr and some SEO services, always used bitcoins on Fiverr, no Paypal or debit or credit card. They did charge around 10% for bitcoin deposits, do not know why they suddenly stopped accepting bitcoins. I do not think it would affect them in any way, but for users like me it is a bit disappointing, still XBT is there :)

Fiverr are total moral policemen, I recently saw the PewDiePie video where he makes a joke about jews or some other shit, and he and everyone involved got banned.

I think Fiverr doesn't really like Bitcoin, they hate anything that doesn't comply with the state, laws, and total control. You can expect more services dropping bitcoin support overtime.

The lack of users who use this payment method, as you know, the majority of people on the internet are now currently using PayPal as their payment method. Probably in Fiverr, the clients who use bitcoin is just too low, and they probably thinking about its volatility too which may affect their business, and now it's come to their final decision to no longer accepts bitcoin. Sad but true, Though I've made few transactions there with bitcoin and pleased.

This is a huge blow to Bitcoin users to as many of us. Use fiver for services and since they were accepting Bitcoins it was very useful. Though I feel this is a minor setback thanks to link given by op, I had first seen the site here on Bitcointalk.org and have browsed to it, it's looks nice and easy to use.
So people can make contact through Fiverr and make a separate transaction escrow for our needs as Fiverr has revealed the statement that they no more accept bitcoin.

It would be good measure to at least post some sources when making statements like that.
You could be right, but as long as you don't post an email or other kind of statement that shows them saying this, you're just spreading FUD.

You can just use the ignore function for that, it's pretty easy to filter out the users who only respond to display their signature.
And report the post if it's really obvious that they're spamming nonsense, they will get banned eventually!

Guys, if you post your answers only to gain some coins via signature campaigns, try to be a bit constructive at least and please (!) DO NOT copy your generic answers. :-\
It's really annoying and it also completely destroys a value of discussion of some threads, which could be otherwise interesting.
Thank you...

I haven't see any official company statement about explaining this change suddently. But from what i know it is not the first time Fiverr removes Bitcoin from their site. It has always been conflictual between Fiverr and Bitcoin. Before too when the volatility started kicking in, Fiverr removed the payment option. Then some days later they reinstalled the Bitcoin option back on once it was more calm.

Be able to pay using bitcoin was the only reason i was using them, oh well i will go in another place. On top of that, this site may be popular but there are lot of  garbages regarding the services offered. I found it is better to hire a VA monthly, even if he needs to be trainned a little for your job

Fiverr is not the first one, and definitely it won't be the last one. Actually, I can't hide my disappointment after hearing about this news. 2016 was a bad year for Bitcoin, with the exception of the exchange rate spike towards the end. I had high hopes for 2017. But now, after hearing about the decission from Fiverr, I am feeling less confident about this year as well.

They sure make mistake.
Bitcoin is growing, so not letting pay with bitcoin is not good for all sides.

On the other hand, lets not forget that the value of the bitcoin is ALWAYS changing.

They sent me the same thing. Their explanation was that they don't accept any Chinese currencies as payment.

To me i believe they are trying to play politic if you examine it you will find out PayPal is not happy with the rise of bitcoin,they may talk to fiverr not to accept bitcoin but only PayPal so that PayPal will still be the dominant e money

then fiver was wrong about bitcoin. bitcoin is still alive. so I think they have the other reason.

well, that is nice information. at least we have the other website that offers freelnace that accept bitcoins. so thank you for the link too.

Mods please take note of these 2 accounts. They could be controlled by one person. Or maybe I am even reading the posts of only one person using different accounts in this whole thread?

At first, the PayPal guys were really concerned about Bitcoin. But after 2014, they have realized that their main competitors are Skrill and Qiwipay, and not Bitcoin. They are not spending much on negative propaganda against Bitcoin now.

Is this the reason for stop using bitcoin payments? People not spending or using it enough? I'd really doubt so. There must be something else, the price up and down too much, in too little time, maybe this could be the reason?
I don't see any other reason for opting out.

I don't think it was because of the wage or covering the money that are spent to maintain/process the bitcoin payments.

It's surprising why companies like this do not like bitcoin, maybe it is for legal reason, maybe they can't make finance reports because of blockchain or so.

If they don't accept Chinese currencies then bitcoin is not Chinese currency but is worldwide, Chinese can affect the price but not shut down it.

Fiverr is such a small market for Bitcoin that we should not worry about it. It is not a major blow. You want a major blow? The dark markets stopping the acceptance of Bitcoin and them having another cryptocurrency in its place. Now that is a big blow.

No wonder people weren't using the bitcoin payment system!

Why do merchants add these charges when the whole point of BTC is to reduce costs?

I remember buying bitcoin and litecoin directly from fiverr gigs a few years ago.

It was basically the only way to buy btc in an automated fashion using paypal.

I hate when business is suddenly discontinuing bitcoin support, I won't be using Fivver again. I remember the same happened before with Humble Bundle.
They cancelled bitcoin support - and I since that time I never purchased a single Humble Bundle again. They didn't even stated the reason why they stopped accepting BTC, so lame.