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Title: CryptoPayAPI - A new way to pay for in-app purchases
Post by: The_Next_Guy on September 03, 2017, 06:56:52 PM
Introducing: CryptoPayAPI

So a thought occurred to me the other day when I was looking at the wallet daydreaming about all the uses of cryptocurrencies when I realize that apps and games on platforms such as Google Play could accept them as credits instead of USD or other government currencies. Such as in Life of Jaxon to buy level packs, instead of using Google's in-app purchases API we could write one for crypto currencies.

It would not be too hard to do. Just ask the users to send coins to an address and set the note as a key. The only major setback for Bitcoin is the current TX price. Lots of other altcoins could be used with reason for micro transactions such as DNR. It might be reasonable to sell DLC content for BTC. Anyways, over the past few weeks, I have been working on CryptoPayAPI. I was hesitant to make a post here but I figure its the best way to get feedback

Current Release: Alpha 2 (https://github.com/Roxas240/CryptoPayAPI/releases/tag/v0.0.2)
GitHub Link: https://github.com/Roxas240/CryptoPayAPI (https://github.com/Roxas240/CryptoPayAPI)

You can follow me on twitter @XemplarSoft (https://twitter.com/XemplarSoft) for updates or altcoin talk in general. If you all could help me test my app and tell me things I should modify or change that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading!

Change Log:
Version 0.0.2: Alpha 2
  • The server now has a UI to monitor transactions
  • The node_config.prop files has all startup parameters
  • The server now updates the database with confirmation count
  • The code is now more organized and complete
  • The server and example code have been separated.

Version 0.0.1: Alpha 1
  • The first release, the server can be run on any platform with apache2, MySQL, and Java capabilities.
  • Payments can be requested using any language that supports POST requests.

-- Rohan Loomis


Title: Re: CryptoPayAPI - A new way to pay for in-app purchases
Post by: buzzkillb on September 06, 2017, 05:23:51 AM
Good job on this!


Title: Re: CryptoPayAPI - A new way to pay for in-app purchases
Post by: kingcarsen on September 12, 2017, 07:42:20 PM
Awesome @The_Next_guy  8)

Keep up the good work!  ;D


Title: Re: CryptoPayAPI - A new way to pay for in-app purchases
Post by: The_Next_Guy on September 26, 2017, 10:37:21 PM
An example of the API in use can be found in the "example" dir in the repo. Here is an example dialog:
https://i.imgur.com/96geRVO.png