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If you live in Australia (or used to and have bills here) you can now pay your bills in bitcoins!

http://paybills.spendbitcoins.com (http://paybills.spendbitcoins.com)

Happy spending!

WOW!!! that is sooo awesome
Hope you are planning to come to Bitcoin AU 2011 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38867.0 :D

that is pretty cool  :)

hi jeremy,

as you may remember, a week or so ago I got you to pay a couple of BPAY payments for me (possibly what started this idea).

while i was more than happy about the 'reduced' bitcoin rate, where i felt a bit jipped was in the USD/AUD rate, which you converted at 1.11 at a time when the going mid-rate on xe.com was 1.06.

i think you should either have a 'bad' bitcon/usd rate or a 'bad' usd/aud rate, but not both.

my thoughts.


edit: forget all of the above, i should have clicked your new link before i blurted all that out... i see you give a fixed bitcoin/AUD rate now as part of the deal so at least we can compare it to tradehill's AUD market for example.

thanks!

 
:) no problem. I appreciate the critique (although all of the exchange rates were spelled out to you BEFORE you paid, so I do wish you would have brought it up privately before paying :).

Allow me to explain the exchange rate you received vs the new bpay exchange rate: The exchange rate you received was on the "buy anything" page, which automatically converts anything other than USD  using the RETAIL rate  (not the bank-to-bank rate you quoted) as that is what I have to pay to convert. As the Aussie bpay page only deals in AUD and I can use AUD without converting, it uses the bank-to-bank rate before adding the fee I would normally receive from affiliates.

If you PM me a bitcoin refund address I'll gladly refund what the difference would have been just as a thank you for giving me this idea. I'll also see if I can figure out the coding to make AUD the bank-to-bank rate on the buy anything page.

Thanks again for a great idea!

sorry i was like a woman in a shoe store at that point, too excited to look at the price, just happy to be able to pay bills with bitcoin, then noticed the usd/aud rate a bit later.

anyway, will PM you, thanks :D

and i hope aussie miners get on board now and pay their electricity bills through your page.

such a good idea......!!! got ta keep my eye on this one.

good on ya jeremy hope this one works out for ya mate.

Trade Well - Andre

Sweet! I can pay my huge electricity bills with the very thing that makes them so huge. I like the circularity there.

BTC 4.56 sent. Cheers!

thanks, you're a legend. just put in a new godaddy order by the way :) keep up the good work.

does the lower exchange compensate your fee's? or do you apply fee's on top of the shown exchange rate on your site?

current market price 1btc = is around $8, your exchnage rate 1btc = $7.32, which is very good if no extra fee's are included, otherwise what are your fee's?

This is soo cool I just had to double post on gizmodo au :P
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/08/the-bitcoin-is-dying-whatever/#comment-172412
Someone is saying Bitcoin is dead, I did a shameless plug and thanked them for the publicity :D

Lower exchange rate (aud) compensates my fees. There are no added fees.

Wow, pardon me for diggin up such an old post but I'm curious what happened to this "pay bills with btc" idea.

It's still possible! You can pay BPAY bills with bitcoin in Australia at LRoS. Any BPAY bill will work.

https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com (https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com)

A great way to support the bitcoin economy!

I saw similar website on Philippines site i guess.

Whole idea is great for sure and I hope there will be more and bigger. This one should impact flexibility for sure.

This is so cool! Sure it will become very popular soon