Title: - Post by: Kris on June 06, 2012, 12:32:45 AM I am pleased to announce the redesign and proper announcement on the Bitcoin Forum of WalletBit, your Bitcoin payment processor and wallet. For merchants: WalletBit offers a flexible and secure wallet with the tools you need to sell goods and services easily for Bitcoin. Our API offers a familiar Paypal-like process and we have modules that allow you to easily integrate WalletBit with PrestaShop, OpenCart and WHMCS. In fact, we use our API on the other services we created and continue to develop (ThroughAds and Laybit). The API also automates sending confirmation emails to customer and automates generation of new Bitcoin addresses as well as the possibility to look up deposit to any of your addresses in your account. Full documentation of our API and tutorials can be found at https://walletbit.com/docs For everyone: WalletBit offers one of the easiest entries into Bitcoin usage, by enabling WalletBit users to send BTC to one another using just an email address. We make paying with Bitcoin very simple. In the future, we will enable sending BTC to anyone in the world via email. Security: WalletBit has been serving clients incident-free since July 2011. Use our proprietary Secure Card to secure your balance against unauthorized withdrawal. We are also unique in that we maintain physical control over our entire operational infrastructure. Deposit (Buy Bitcoin): You are able to buy Bitcoins directly from your account by Wire Transfer, just type in the amount in chosen currency and click submit. Also deposit from any Bitcoin client or web service to any of your generated Bitcoin addresses. Withdrawals: If you use Mt.Gox, BitInstant or any other to cash out your Bitcoins, simply use our withdrawals section to send to any Bitcoin address, or wait for Virtual Visa Card. Virtual Visa Card: We are currently negotiating a great deal to provide Virtual Visa Card you can fund with Bitcoins. You will be able to load the card with Bitcoins and purchase anywhere you see the Visa logo. More on this subject must wait for a later date but for now you can keep an eye out for https://walletbit.com/virtual-visa-card On-site payment system: One of our key features is enabling customer to pay for merchandize directly, without leaving the merchant website, The merchant just needs to add a bit of JavaScript to the <head> of the HTML code and place payment buttons in any HTML or WYSIWYG editor. Watch a short video of the process. http://acentralcafe.com/ Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions. We're looking forward to providing you with first rate service going into our second year! Sincerely, Kris WalletBit (tm) https://walletbit.com Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Nejc Kodric (BitStamp.net) on June 08, 2012, 10:12:57 AM Nice service. Good job Kris!
Best regards, Nejc Kodrič Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on June 08, 2012, 07:26:01 PM Nice service. Good job Kris! Best regards, Nejc Kodrič Thank you! Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: byronbb on June 08, 2012, 09:39:49 PM Great idea. Very good to make it work over WAP. Africa is a huge market for bitcoin and mobile payments and usage is very high there.
A quick google found http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:22551641~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258644,00.html (http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:22551641~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258644,00.html). Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: rjk on June 08, 2012, 09:47:45 PM Awesome, awesome, awesome. How portable is it? I assume that it runs on the extremely stripped down Java VMs that such phones use, so it should be reasonably compatible.
Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Raoul Duke on June 08, 2012, 09:52:54 PM I will leave this picture here, with the tagline "Developing Countries" while I write a press release. http://wap.walletbit.com/wap.png I suspect you have a winner there ;) Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Tuxavant on June 08, 2012, 10:25:58 PM Huge news is huge. Tried to upvote. Can't. +1 Internet applied.
Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: BitPay Business Solutions on June 08, 2012, 10:58:35 PM great work Kris!
Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Stephen Gornick on June 08, 2012, 11:00:00 PM I will leave this picture here, with the tagline "Developing Countries" while I write a press release. How about getting some beta testers before the press release? What I want to know, so the recipient gets a link that can be used to claim (withdraw) the bitcoins? Is that secure? E-mail is not secure. Messages transfer in clear text. As soon as it is realized that data redeemable for anonymous digital currency are floating through the ethers in your messages, thieves will be sniffing for your messages. So, if this is what you are doing, probably this approach will require some further thought? Also, in the developing country, oftentimes both the merchant and the customer only have feature phones. The ability to send to another person's mobile (SMS text message on both ends) would be a useful feature. [Edit: This service from WalletBit uses WAP, not SMS text messaging.] Solve that and you'll have the first "M-Pesa, bitcoin edition". Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: cypherdoc on June 09, 2012, 01:04:25 PM I will leave this picture here, with the tagline "Developing Countries" while I write a press release. How about getting some beta testers before the press release? What I want to know, so the recipient gets a link that can be used to claim (withdraw) the bitcoins? Is that secure? E-mail is not secure. Messages transfer in clear text. As soon as it is realized that data redeemable for anonymous digital currency are floating through the ethers in your messages, thieves will be sniffing for your messages. So, if this is what you are doing, probably this approach will require some further thought? Also, in the developing country, oftentimes both the merchant and the customer only have feature phones. The ability to send to another person's mobile (SMS text message on both ends) would be a useful feature. Solve that and you'll have the first "M-Pesa, bitcoin edition". Steve, does that vulnerability also apply to Coinapult? Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: vuce on June 09, 2012, 01:11:27 PM I will leave this picture here, with the tagline "Developing Countries" while I write a press release. How about getting some beta testers before the press release? What I want to know, so the recipient gets a link that can be used to claim (withdraw) the bitcoins? Is that secure? E-mail is not secure. Messages transfer in clear text. As soon as it is realized that data redeemable for anonymous digital currency are floating through the ethers in your messages, thieves will be sniffing for your messages. So, if this is what you are doing, probably this approach will require some further thought? Also, in the developing country, oftentimes both the merchant and the customer only have feature phones. The ability to send to another person's mobile (SMS text message on both ends) would be a useful feature. Solve that and you'll have the first "M-Pesa, bitcoin edition". Steve, does that vulnerability also apply to Coinapult? Everything is sent unencrypted through e-mail (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76493.msg849654#msg849654), so yes. Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: rjk on June 10, 2012, 04:21:04 AM It works on my blackberry with Opera Mobile, that's cool. But the secure password that I created didn't work for logging in via WAP, even though it did work for logging in to the website. The secure password included symbols such as #, !, and *, and was 16 characters log generated by LastPass. When I chose the password reset option, the password was reset to a shorter one with only numbers and lowercase letters, although the new, reset password allowed me to access the site via WAP.
It looks like you can only send coins via an email address somehow, is that correct? EDIT: Apparently recipients must have a Walletbit account, but the limitations might be because Opera Mobile is crappy. Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on June 10, 2012, 04:37:57 AM It works on my blackberry with Opera Mobile, that's cool. But the secure password that I created didn't work for logging in via WAP, even though it did work for logging in to the website. The secure password included symbols such as #, !, and *, and was 16 characters log generated by LastPass. When I chose the password reset option, the password was reset to a shorter one with only numbers and lowercase letters, although the new, reset password allowed me to access the site via WAP. Strange, maybe a limitation I didn't foresee for the WML language. Yes WML is very old, I don't even think it is being developed on anymore. It looks like you can only send coins via an email address somehow, is that correct? EDIT: Apparently recipients must have a Walletbit account, but the limitations might be because Opera Mobile is crappy. Correct, both parties need to sign up at WalletBit with their email as stated in the press release. Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Stephen Gornick on June 11, 2012, 08:07:09 PM Correct, both parties need to sign up at WalletBit with their email as stated in the press release. You could easily make it so that the wallet has a bitcoin address to receive coins, and so that the user can send to a bitcoin address. There's really no technical reason for not offering that, right (other than sending to a Bitcoin address requires tediously typing in a valid string of letters and numbers.)? Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: rjk on June 11, 2012, 08:08:47 PM Correct, both parties need to sign up at WalletBit with their email as stated in the press release. You could easily make it so that the wallet has a bitcoin address to receive coins, and so that the user can send to a bitcoin address. There's really no technical reason for not offering that, right? Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: MagnaGen on June 11, 2012, 08:19:03 PM I really like the virtual visa card
has anyone used this successfully? Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Stephen Gornick on June 12, 2012, 11:47:31 AM Correct, both parties need to sign up at WalletBit with their email as stated in the press release. You could easily make it so that the wallet has a bitcoin address to receive coins, and so that the user can send to a bitcoin address. There's really no technical reason for not offering that, right? Oh, so I am misunderstanding Kris' statement before? It can work where I send bitcoins from my cleint (e.g., bitcoin-qt) to a Bitcoin addres for the WAP wallet for the recipient? (i.e., standalone user) Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: rjk on June 12, 2012, 01:29:30 PM Correct, both parties need to sign up at WalletBit with their email as stated in the press release. You could easily make it so that the wallet has a bitcoin address to receive coins, and so that the user can send to a bitcoin address. There's really no technical reason for not offering that, right? Oh, so I am misunderstanding Kris' statement before? It can work where I send bitcoins from my cleint (e.g., bitcoin-qt) to a Bitcoin addres for the WAP wallet for the recipient? (i.e., standalone user) Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on June 14, 2012, 09:43:57 AM Be sure to checkout our In the works.
https://walletbit.com/about/in-the-works Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on June 22, 2012, 02:53:49 AM You are now able to purchase on merchant sites using WalletBit as payment option without having a WalletBit account. In the payment window just click on "No WalletBit account? Pay using any Bitcoin client" and it will switch to a window showing Qr code, price and the bitcoin address in Bitcoin URI link for transferring the amount to, when the transaction hits 3 confirmations Instant Payment Notification will be send to the merchant site even if you paid with no WalletBit account.
Pretty awesome if you ask me, but I cannot be very objective since I made it. Regards Kris Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Raoul Duke on June 22, 2012, 02:59:13 AM You are now able to purchase on merchant sites using WalletBit as payment option without having a WalletBit account. In the payment window just click on "No WalletBit account? Pay using any Bitcoin client" and it will switch to a window showing Qr code, price and the bitcoin address in Bitcoin URI link for transferring the amount to, when the transaction hits 3 confirmations Instant Payment Notification will be send to the merchant site even if you paid with no WalletBit account. Pretty awesome if you ask me, but I cannot be very objective since I made it. Regards Kris Now, that's what was missing ;) Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on June 25, 2012, 02:01:27 AM Indeed :D
Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on July 05, 2012, 02:30:20 AM Interested in Mobile Wallet?
We might have just what you need. https://walletbit.com/includes/iphone.png (http://responsepay.com) ResponsePay (http://responsepay.com) Read more at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91431.0 Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on July 09, 2012, 02:23:51 AM Showcase video for transferring bitcoin instant to another wallet on a phone using ResponsePay.
From HTC Android with Opera Mobile 12 to iPhone Safari. http://youtu.be/ovZv4KyuCrY Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Stephen Gornick on July 11, 2012, 01:30:07 AM Withdrawals: If you use Mt.Gox, BitInstant or any other to cash out your Bitcoins, simply use our withdrawals section to send to any Bitcoin address, There are two methods of sending bitcions, one as "Withdraw" and the other "Send Bitcoins". This is confusing. Other wallets apps and services use the term Send bitcoins to send them to another bitcoin address. WalletBit uses "Send Bitcoins" to navigate to the send via e-mail form, and "Withdraw" to navigate to the send to a bitcoin address. Perhaps the menu should be "Send via email"? Or perhaps, make it one form and let me choose the destination, bitcoin address or e-mail? I do see that the forms are for different purposes so I don't know that trying to use just one form would work though. Another question ... is it necessary to have Secure Card for all withdrawal actions? That is overbearing for typical transactions. As a user, I might be willing to risk a daily withdrawal of, oh, say 7 BTC (about $50 USD worth) without having to enter a Secure Card. If there were a threshold in settings that I could set myself, that way the wallet would be secure for a little larger amount of bitcoins (where Secure Card is required to withdraw) yet remains convenient for routine purchase amounts. Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on July 15, 2012, 12:44:44 AM Withdrawals: If you use Mt.Gox, BitInstant or any other to cash out your Bitcoins, simply use our withdrawals section to send to any Bitcoin address, There are two methods of sending bitcions, one as "Withdraw" and the other "Send Bitcoins". This is confusing. Other wallets apps and services use the term Send bitcoins to send them to another bitcoin address. WalletBit uses "Send Bitcoins" to navigate to the send via e-mail form, and "Withdraw" to navigate to the send to a bitcoin address. Perhaps the menu should be "Send via email"? Or perhaps, make it one form and let me choose the destination, bitcoin address or e-mail? I do see that the forms are for different purposes so I don't know that trying to use just one form would work though. Another question ... is it necessary to have Secure Card for all withdrawal actions? That is overbearing for typical transactions. As a user, I might be willing to risk a daily withdrawal of, oh, say 7 BTC (about $50 USD worth) without having to enter a Secure Card. If there were a threshold in settings that I could set myself, that way the wallet would be secure for a little larger amount of bitcoins (where Secure Card is required to withdraw) yet remains convenient for routine purchase amounts. I will look into this, thank you for the suggestion! You will see I made it the way you explained at ResponsePay. In my mind the Secure Card is always necessary. But I have tried to make it very easy with ResponsePay where you simply need to input a 4 digit pin code to unlock the interface. If you enable it from your WalletBit -> Manage Email and Personal notifications -> Enable Mobile ResponsePay, you will see what I am talking about, since it can be used on a desktop as well as any newer mobile device. And Happy Anniversary To WalletBTCit! Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on July 20, 2012, 07:45:40 PM There will be scheduled downtime for WalletBit & ResponsePay tomorrow between 9:00am and 1:00pm
We are doing electrical upgrades. Regards Kris Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on August 17, 2012, 04:40:46 PM Enabled referral commission on WalletBit, Get 1% of their first deposit, when you refer a friend. https://walletbit.com/ref/45ab2793b84a351e3354661e6532c1c7
Find your link in your Dashboard! Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on September 04, 2012, 10:20:18 AM Temporary outage while we replace the UPS
Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on September 21, 2012, 04:06:14 AM We had a few request about Two-Factor Authentication, and with all the current hacking and DDoSing going on - here it is.
Two-Factor Authentication If you would like to use Google Authenticator on sign in, you will need a supported mobile device, to run the Google Authenticator application. You can follow the instructions under Manage Account and Personal Notifications on WalletBit to install Google Authenticator onto these devices, and enable it for sign in. Stay tuned for more updates, and don't forget to tweet or like us on Google+ or Facebook! Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on October 20, 2012, 11:55:19 PM We have revised our fee structure and made it more accessible, renewing our commitment to transparency. Thank you for pointing out our shortcomings CIYAM Pty. Ltd. If anyone else has any suggestions or comments, we are always striving to improve the quality of our service at Walletbit.
Please familiarize yourself with the improved and more accessible layout of WalletBit fees at https://walletbit.com/pricing. In many cases Walletbit is cheaper than our leading competitor. https://cdn.walletbit.com/includes/press/SimplePricingPlan.png Thank you Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: rexcoin on October 21, 2012, 12:00:15 AM Hey Kris,
I been using walletbit for a good amount of time. I must say your service and updates on walletbit has been amazing! I think I been on walletbit for more then a year and i will continue using it! Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on October 21, 2012, 02:19:54 AM Hey Kris, I been using walletbit for a good amount of time. I must say your service and updates on walletbit has been amazing! I think I been on walletbit for more then a year and i will continue using it! Thank you very much Rexcoin, warms my heart when I hear words like that. I will as always continue to make it the best Bitcoin Merchant Solution I possibly can. Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: louisBSAS on April 18, 2013, 11:06:52 PM I signed up for Walletbit in order to pay my VPN service - worked well (except for the three hour wait to deposit)
January: Deposited 1btc paid .77 for the service had a balance of .221 Now: The bill just came and I knew I had enough to pay it (.15btc) I signed on to Walletbit - BTC0.00 What happened to my balance? Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on April 19, 2013, 06:22:46 AM It's really hard to know without more information. Please write to support. Thanks.
Title: Re: [ANN] WalletBit - Merchant Solutions and Bitcoin Wallet Post by: Kris on July 03, 2013, 04:58:50 PM Important information, please see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=249751.0
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