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Title: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: Anonymous on July 16, 2010, 01:28:24 PM Is there a way to implement subscription payments using bitcoin?
Say you would like to donate once a month to your favourite charity or content provider such as a podcast without having to remember to manually process the payment? One less reason to use a credit card! Title: Re: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: Gavin Andresen on July 16, 2010, 01:41:04 PM Unix and Mac and Windows all have ways of scheduling recurring tasks (Linux: crontab, Mac: crontab, or I think iCal can do it, Windows... I dunno).
So if you're a little bit geeky, you could arrange for "bitcoin sendtoaddress 1mJMYFAVORITECHARITY9R4 amount" to get run once a month. (just run bitcoin with the -server flag). Title: Re: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: Strofcon on July 16, 2010, 02:10:53 PM I haven't had much luck finding all the options that can be passed to bitcoin/bitcoind when it's run... -connect, -addnode, and -server are the ones I've seen so far. Are there others?
What exactly does -server do? Also, it seems that -connect and -addnode have pretty similar functionality... My best guess is that -connect is to force only one explicit connection to be made, whereas -addnode just says "make all the connections you want, but by golly you better connect to <IP>, if nothing else." Is that at least close to right? :) Title: Re: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: theymos on July 16, 2010, 06:44:35 PM Try "bitcoin -?" for a list.
Title: Re: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: EricJ2190 on July 16, 2010, 06:51:43 PM Windows... I dunno Windows has Task Scheduler, or you can use of one various cron clones. Title: Re: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: jgarzik on July 22, 2010, 06:43:03 AM IMO, the bitcoin client should have a subscription manager.
Title: Re: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: lachesis on July 23, 2010, 01:18:35 AM -1 for now.
I think keeping the vanilla client as plain as possible is a good thing. These things can easily be implemented in other clients, but the one on this site should serve as a sort of "reference". We should also focus on the JSON-RPC API so that other clients can interface with this one instead of having to modify it. Title: Re: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: nenolod on July 23, 2010, 05:00:35 AM IMO, the bitcoin client should have a subscription manager. i've never used the ui client, but if the linux client exposed itself via dbus, you could write your own subscription manager. alternatively, put this in your crontab: 0 0 0 0 */1 bitcoin -server sendtoaddress whatever amount-in-btc this will invoke bitcoin from the commandline and send the money. Title: Re: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: jgarzik on July 23, 2010, 05:25:24 AM i've never used the ui client, but if the linux client exposed itself via dbus, you could write your own subscription manager. alternatively, put this in your crontab: 0 0 0 0 */1 bitcoin -server sendtoaddress whatever amount-in-btc Sure, I can do this. But the supposition and suggestion were more general. If bitcoins are to be successful, there needs to be a subscription system accessible to Aunt Tillie. Title: Re: Bitcoin subscriptions Post by: lachesis on July 26, 2010, 02:43:50 AM If bitcoins are to be successful, there needs to be a subscription system accessible to Aunt Tillie. This belongs outside the main client. There's no reason you can't write a trivial system in Python or something, but there's also no reason to clutter up my Bitcoin client with that.I wonder if there's any viable way to make a simple extension system for Bitcoin? It seems like it would be a lot of work... |