Just to make sure:
BitPay essentially offers to take our BTC and pays something they consider an equivalent amount of USD to Wikimedia. All in all Wikimedia gets is a single donation per day by BitPay in USD (potentially with a remark like "this is coming from the Bitcoin community" or similar).

I like the idea, but as mentioned above it would be great to still ahve a list of payments in Bitcoin how much was donated, in USD how much arrived at Wikimedia and it would be nice if BitPay would offer such a service for some other uses as well ("Pay for paypal with Bitcoin"? "Bitcoin to SEPA"...)

Also how to do this at similar prices compared to AppEngine and with similar levels of support (maybe due to anonymous payments attracting shady characters there might be even a slightly increased rate of abuses for spam etc.) is something more difficult than just deploying that and starting to earn BTC.

Computer can be translated to/used as "Rechner" (calculator), internet sometimes gets jokingly called "Internetz" ("Netz" = engl. net) in German.
Bitcoin(s) however are probably never going to be translated as "Bitmünze" - sounds weird to my ears and not "sexy" at all.

I don't really get the OP: Do you want "Bitcoin" written in different alphabets (you already had hebrew, latin, japanese, cyrillic...) or "translations" (mostly the "coin" part in local language) or simply if we'd write Bitcoin with a capital B (if there are capital letters in that alphabet that is...), because I guess besides using a "k" in "coin" there's not much room for alternate spellings...

Well, I can guess which one - probably because he's the single person in the world that uses this system... why should this be in a standard?! What about base17 Euro or base19 USD?

Anyways, thanks for the work so far and I really would recommend to either only use bitcoin or just a generic made-up currency as example and let actual currencies be included in a proper process and not just "from the top of your head".

Well, that would be an unhappy miner then because the block would be rejected as invalid and eventually someone will mine a 25 BTC block...

Miners get to choose which transactions get in their block - the "genesis" transactions out of thin air however are capped. Why else should they mine 50 BTC blocks if they could mine 1000 BTC blocks?

Wenn du abschließen willst, sende doch lieber mir deine 0.93 BTC statt noch mehr zu erschnorren!

In der Art von Dienstleistung die BitPay anbietet kann es übrigens nicht viel was geben, außer man baut sich aus APIs diverser Exchange-Websites was Passendes zusammen. Nur Bitcoins zu empfangen ist einfach und dazu hast du ohnehin schon ne Lösung gefunden...

If a merchant ends up with only Bitcoins suddenly these are even less useful than having [insert obscure currency from a country far far away] because there's no real way to just exchange them, to even find out the current prices etc.

Yes, BitPay and the like are business models that can be copied and compete with each other (unlike PayPal, as they rely on their user base, not their technology) but at the moment BitPay is the only solution I saw where you can sign up, get a button and get EUR/USD to a bank account. Maybe MtGox merchant tools finally got around to providing something similar, but I doubt it (also they are a pain in the rear with all their holdups on getting fiat out).

Please just send me the following data (signed with GPG and/or a Bitcoin address that 100% belongs to you) on the mail address that you anyways got from Nefario:

Amount of shares you think I still own
BTC address you think that belongs to me

I don't really see the need for you to connect my GLBSE account with the account here and my e-mail address... also so far I haven't really seen errors in the data Nefario sent out (besides that stupid double payment).

Well, I've yet to receive any communication or BTC from GLBSE itself. The mail from giga's lawyer was actually the first proof that my information that I submitted was actually going somewhere after ~2 months of waiting.

https://bitpay.com/terms - BitPay probably would at the first sign of any trouble also back out of anything like that.

Only having Bitcoins is very often probably not enough for merchants (see Wordpress!) or resellers, they would likely prefer services where they get USD, no matter what the payment is in (ideally you can pay in any real or virtual currency, up to WoW gold and all the merchant gets is a daily transaction with all the money converted to USD that came in).

None that i'm aware of - however big transactions might become exponentially a lot more (thanks Meni! ) expensive due to blockchain spam prevention.

I'd recommend to maybe use batches of 100 transactions at once or so, not thousands.

I don't really get how a lot of people should be able to produce "Tax IDs" (what are these exactly anyways?!) who live outside of the US.

Also the cost for an Apostille is far greater than any coins I could get back from my few gigamining (soon Teramining... remember?!) shares.

Thirdly, I really don't trust some random lawyer in the US (http://mylawyr.com/ <-- lol), please also send the information you require from us (picture ID, Tax ID, apostille...) stating that your company(?!!) actually IS engaged with this lawyer. The mail I received is NOT signed with any Bitcoin address used by gigamining, actually not signed at all and asks from me some information that is highly unreasonable to ask for something worth the equivalent of a few dozen bucks.

This is the last post you'll see from me in this matter, the remaining communication will be coming from my lawyer - and I hope a few US citizens also grow the balls to simply go to the police, report potential idendity theft and fraud and the chance that someone just wants to get away by pulling an LLC out of his rear end.

Oh, and a last point:
Currently there's no way to see which Bitcoin address one actually has submitted to GLBSE, so quite a few people might have problems even knowing it...

Anyone offering something similar for Amazon.de?

Also make sure to use the "sendmany" option to avoid transaction fees + blockchain bloat. If you have any questions, please ask first before you try it out, I'm sure there are people who can assist you here.

Why the hell do you do that?! You were told from the beginning that payments from GLBSE will be received at that address you submit and if you wnat to give your friend some BTC, you could just have sent them. Mail is by FAR less secure than BTC addresses.

Great to hear you're still following up and (slowly but surely...) honoring the contract.

How much have you collected since the last dividend and how much debt is still outstanding?

I really think it's a great idea, just not scaling up very well probably (as with high volumes Amazon might have a look into it and shut you down).

Please just mention for which Amazon page you offer a link and maybe just hand them out via PM then it should be kinda ok.

Gut daran auch:
Wordpress erhält USD, User zahlen mit BTC - beide Seiten sind happy!

Das gibt einen guten Grund wieso Websites eben doch BTC (über Dienstleister wie BitPay) akzeptieren sollten, ohne jetzt Risiken wie Währungsschwankungen oder sonstwas zu haben. Aus Sicht des Unternehmens ist BitPay eben nur eine weitere Art USD zu erhalten - nur eben auch von Kunden die nicht mal in USD wechseln können/dürfen zu recht günstigen Preisen im Vergleich zu PayPal z.B.

Andererseits liegt das Risiko dann eben darin, dass BitPay auch weiterleben muss, allerdings lässt sich deren Geschäftsmodell sicher besser kopieren/nachahmen/verbilligen als PayPal, da man bei Bitcoin die "Macht" eher auf Händlerseite konzentriert hat als auf Käuferseite.