It's definitely interesting, and I'll be staring/bookmarking this for future clients (as I have had this requested in the past).
I don't know if it's going to spell the end for services like BitPay; just simply because I know there's a huge sense of security when it comes to having a service hosted for you vs. you hosting it yourself; along with the fact a developer would most likely have to be hired to set this up.
Like others have mentioned, for the business owners who are willing to learn, it's definitely worth it.
Guys, you don't need to learn anything/pay anyone. If you don't want to bother at all, BTCPay also has Azure 1-click Deploy (Costs are about 15-20EUR per month, after fully deployed). Now tell me thats not more affordable than any provider. For 20EUR a month, no installation process (Simple click of a button) you can process as many transactions as you want with same compatibility as BitPay's API ! Would this handle automatic updates as well? Because they would at least have to understand basic operation/maintenance of it once installed if not. I don't think there are automatic updates (why would you let anyone push files on your server anyway ?), but I assume that everyone is capable of copy/pasting files from github... |
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It's definitely interesting, and I'll be staring/bookmarking this for future clients (as I have had this requested in the past).
I don't know if it's going to spell the end for services like BitPay; just simply because I know there's a huge sense of security when it comes to having a service hosted for you vs. you hosting it yourself; along with the fact a developer would most likely have to be hired to set this up.
Like others have mentioned, for the business owners who are willing to learn, it's definitely worth it.
Guys, you don't need to learn anything/pay anyone. If you don't want to bother at all, BTCPay also has Azure 1-click Deploy (Costs are about 15-20EUR per month, after fully deployed). Now tell me thats not more affordable than any provider. For 20EUR a month, no installation process (Simple click of a button) you can process as many transactions as you want with same compatibility as BitPay's API ! |
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In the unlikely event I were to start my own business, BTCPay Server is almost certainly the route I'd go. Better decentralisation, fewer middlemen and potential cost saving benefits as the icing on the cake.
I think if more people only realised this was an option available to them, the payment processors would have to start considering the long-term sustainability of their business model. Pretty much the only benefit they have left is the instant conversion to fiat. And if fiat does become less desirable over time as the global economy worsens, they'll have no advantage remaining.
Yes it seems the best way forward for those who have some tech knowledge rather than use 3rd party plugins It's not fair to say this. Installing and supporting a product the likes of BTCPay is non-trivial. If you are a small merchant then you most likely do not have the technical expertise to do this, after all your business is your business and not maintaining BTCPay. No doubt, folks with significant technical expertise (I am assuming you are in this category) don't have a problem handling the ins and outs of running one's own node, installing BTCPay, debugging it, customizing it et cetera, but for mom & pop running a vape store it's an entirely different ballgame. This is not exactly true. I worked with BTCPay last week just to try it out, and you don't have to manage anything. Its designed to be a drop-in replacement for Bitpay, so any services working with Bitpay (ecommerce plugins, APIs etc) will also work with BTCPay. |
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I don't understand the point of this. As I argued before, tokenizing everything is not really great idea. Why don't you just use BTC and work with companies the same way, why do they need your token ? Or if you are concerned of bitcoin's tx fee (currently 0.03$) why don't just use Steem or IOTA ? Imagine having a currency for each shop you visit. You go into a store to buy bread and pay in Euros, then you forgot that you had to buy a milk and you go into different store on the way home and they don't use Euros, they want Store coins, then you need to exchange coins just to make purchase you want. Then you go home and you see a little corner shop with those fridges outside and now you want a beverage of some kind, but that shop only accept Little Shop Tokens. Do you get the point ? Its becoming really stupid... Currently no altcoins (tokens especially) have a real world use. Everything can be done with Bitcoin at this point in time.
because using bitcoin sucks, creating ones own money is much easier. bitcoiners also didnt wanted to use central banks, they think the same. It does ? Very interesting way of thinking... But I do agree, creating your own money is easier. So equivalent of a token in real world is me writing some stuff on a piece of paper and calling it my own currency that I accept in my shop because its easier for me. I don't think you understand whats going on. Bitcoin = transactions. I'm all for creating new blockchains like Ethereum that have purpose, but making tokens for everything is just getting out of hand. There are over a thousand of tokens but 0 tokens have utility that cannot be solved with Bitcoin. |
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I don't understand the point of this. As I argued before, tokenizing everything is not really great idea. Why don't you just use BTC and work with companies the same way, why do they need your token ? Or if you are concerned of bitcoin's tx fee (currently 0.03$) why don't just use Steem or IOTA ? Imagine having a currency for each shop you visit. You go into a store to buy bread and pay in Euros, then you forgot that you had to buy a milk and you go into different store on the way home and they don't use Euros, they want Store coins, then you need to exchange coins just to make purchase you want. Then you go home and you see a little corner shop with those fridges outside and now you want a beverage of some kind, but that shop only accept Little Shop Tokens. Do you get the point ? Its becoming really stupid... Currently no altcoins (tokens especially) have a real world use. Everything can be done with Bitcoin at this point in time.
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Could you please offer me an Email address, I will send you some files to check, it is different.
I cannot sorry. I don't give out my email to everyone. But if I couldn't understand what is so special about you, don't you think thats a problem ? I mean you should be able to describe in one sentence what are you doing and why should I use your service otherwise its pointless  |
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I just checked your webiste. Looks like just a simple wallet with a few more features that already exists somewhere else ? What am I missing ? I don't understand what is exactly "different financial technology" ?
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If you actually created the script, I'll give you a few tips to make it viable in production. First is Payment system, if you use PayPal for gambling sites you will get your merchant account limited straight away. In order to do that you must undergo all kinds of verifications and poses proper licences, so its a no-go for small websites. Now, if you want to include crypto as other viable payment system you have to ditch whole credits stuff to avoid your platform being used as an exchange and potentially taking a lost. Lastly, I saw you are promoting one of your games as "MD5 PROVABLY FAIR". MD5 hash is not being used for quite some time now because its not secure by today's standard (you can create a collisions on purpose, which should be hard to impossible on sha256 for example). Hope you will see my comment as tips to improve the quality of the product you are selling. Good luck !
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a new web-spaceperfectly designed for communication in crypto-industry. we already have many forums and become very difficult for new forums to have some visibility We don't want to multiply purposeless "bitcoin talks" - we aim at creating a space for generating new ideas and establishing a progressive internet community within the cryptosphere. indirectly you are saying that the posts made in bitcointalk are just conversations without purpose, so you are creating a new forum because you think you will be different from bitcointalk, but as I said before, it is very difficult for new forums to succeed This is not just another social network. time will tell if you will be different or not Want to be among the first to get our premium features? What do you mean with: " premium features? " Yes, indeed, there are plenty forums on the web, so our goal is to change the classic concept of a forum by adding social network features and news blog. We want to create comfortable conditions for communication and discussion of various topics and to move away from the obsolete standards used by many other web projects. If you are interested in CRYPS's development - join us in social networks. Premium features Promotion of your profile and publications in the top; Promotion of your forum topic in the top with pinning. How do you actually plan to acquire users ? No one really cares about technology, proof of that is really is this forum. Software barely changed in years but no one really cares, everyone is still here even though there are other more advanced forums. |
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I think that is completely normal. What altcoin atm has real world use ? Users simply don't want to bother getting on an exchange and selling BTC for other coins... And if you think logically, why does your coin exist ? Why you simply don't do the same stuff you do just with BTC ?
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I tried Bitpay (it uses something like Microsoft Access to store data), i'ts VERY slow, like 20 seconds to show one address (even on bitpay official website).
I think any database-free will be very slow. I'll give BlockCypher a try.
Edit: Just installed BlockCypher and discovered it is a front-end only source, it doesn't store anything, just make the api calls to blockypher database...
Not sure what you mean by saying its very slow. I just tested out Insight on Bitpay's official website and its working really fine, not slow at all... Maybe its something on your end. |
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Not sure on that, but its quite possible he purchased it from me originally. I replied to your thread and reported the post, thanks for helping out, really appreciate it. What he is doing is considered "untrusted behavior" by definition and should be dealt with. If some DT member is reading this and also find this behavior disgusting, you would be more than welcome to tag him with red trust.
This is the problem with intellectual property. Anyone can copy your work and claim it saying their works. The DTs can tag the account but how many times they will do that? This person will create bunches of accounts and will spam the forum if he see there is a potential market in here for the script. Anyway, if you are in UK then this might help: https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-an-overviewGood luck. Does not matter, if he is willing to go trough the process again and again I am too. Its a 10 secs for a DT to tag him, but I image it will take him longer to create new acc and post that stuff again. |
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I randomly found this thread earlier ( Marketplace Script * Tor Optimized * Bitcoin/Monero Escrow Market ) and saw the guy selling my script. He is obviously not authorized by me to do it... He even copy/pasted most of the stuff from my thread. Now, as a programmer I don't like seeing my work being sold by someone else because I know how much time I put into the project, but unfortunately there is not much I can do here other than posting this information out there. What he is doing is considered "untrusted behavior" by definition and should be dealt with. If some DT member is reading this and also find this behavior disgusting, you would be more than welcome to tag him with red trust. |
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You didn't even bother to change half of the text from my thread... Eckmar's Marketplace and Auction Script [ESCROW FEATURES] [199$] [TOR] [DEMO] Explanation to everyone reading this, the product shown above is my work (as you can see in my thread that I linked in the post) and the OP is not authorized by me to resell it. Now obviously I cannot prevent anyone from posting or delete someone's thread but I can at least warn potential customers of the OP that they would be buying something that is in fact my product and I wouldn't encourage them to buy it from 3rd parties (especially this untrusted). @OP What you are doing is simply wrong. I would like to ask you nicely to stop selling my product. Don't even try to explain you self by saying you did some modifications or changed color of the theme on my product and that makes you entitled to sell it... |
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Caution to everyone, its probably not working. If it really does what you say (always win), why not become a millionaire yourseld instead of selling it for what seems to be chump change in comparison ? Just use some common sense and avoid getting scammed.
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Very good design. Some options you got there are very useful, but the big issue here is performance. Your whole website is really slow. Loading data takes some time etc. You might want to invest in better server or optimize your backend with cache.
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I think that smaller merchants are still better off with some payment processor. Running a server with bitcoind is not cheap, especially on Azure. I guess you can find some cheap solution online for like 20$ a month but would you really trust that provider than...
On the other side, if you are larger processor with a lot of transactions each month, this will save a lot of money.
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Username/UID: eckmar
Bitcointalk Rank: Legendary (You can put me as Hero)
Current number of posts: 1710
Bitcoin Address to send the payment: 3LagmXc8L8FcejBcke2pyHkPgKLPC3VApC
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Wait, are those physical cards or digital cards ? Also what balances you have available and at what prices ?
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