Flattr is considering Bitcoin support but needs help

[ploum]

Flattr is web service that allows to give micro donations to the content on the web ( you can read my description here: http://ploum.net/post/paying-web and a follow-up here: http://ploum.net/post/flattrs-biggest-problem ). Because of a popular request, they are actively looking into support bitcoin to:

1. Allow people to fund their account in bitcoins
2. Allow people to withdraw money earned as bitcoins

They posted the following tweet: https://twitter.com/Flattr/status/350345129267175424 which seems to says that there is still a need for bitcoin services. Point 2 seems to not be offered by any provider so far.

I will ask for more details about what is needed on the Flattr side but, in the meantime, what would be your advices?

[Gabi]

To me they look very very confused (aka: they don't know well how bitcoin work)

Just ask Bitpay and problem solved.

"bitcoin providers"? Bitcoin isn't internet!

[ploum]

Or it could be a shorter way of saying "bitcoin service providers".

[Kris]

I did talk with Flattr when BIPS was in San Francisco. I will try and see what I can do to bring this to fruition.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I did talk with Flattr when BIPS was in San Francisco. I will try and see what I can do to bring this to fruition.

Have them talk to Tony or Steve at BitPay and it'll be solve within an hour.

[Kris]

I did talk with Flattr when BIPS was in San Francisco. I will try and see what I can do to bring this to fruition.

Have them talk to Tony or Steve at BitPay and it'll be solve within an hour.

 

I helped Bit-pay more than plenty already.

there were very few providers that could guarantee transactions both ways. What I mean by this is users would load up Bitcoins, the provider would take those bitcoins and then give Flattr euros and finally when a user wants to withdraw on their Flattr account they would then get the option to withdraw in bitcoins.

I got a unlikely maybe from Bitpay, a unlikely maybe from coinbase, a "i think so" yes from Charlie Shrem with Bit Instant, and a maybe yes from a Sweedish exchange outfit.

[torbank]

They need to talk to WordPress and reddit.

[legitnick]

Very cool idea, to get more publicity you should make an article in a place like Forbes, or wordpress.

[Kris]

So I did my best to bring this to fruition, as written above.

But...

[WiW]

http://blog.flattr.net/2013/07/adding-bitcoin-support/

[LiteCoinGuy]

http://blog.flattr.net/2013/07/adding-bitcoin-support/

  good one

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[No_2]

Good news.

[The Bitcoin Catalog]

Excelent! 

[Cyberdyne]

If they thought bitcoin enthusiasts were skilled at harassing people, just wait until they hear from the alt currency crowd... Oh wait, look, it's already started in the comments.

Please add litecoin

If they add litecoin, someone will next ask for ***coin support and the harassment will never end

[LightRider]

Awesome news! I don't know what a flattr is, but the bigger bitcoin ecosystem, the better.

Thinking about it more, I wonder if a 10% cut off of the top, in addition to whatever processing fees their service provider is now getting, each way most likely, is worth it for the people getting flattr'd...

[giszmo]

The reference about their payment methods is behind a login wall!?!? WTF? TOS walled? That's a good sign for any service.

I checked on Wikipedia (de) and there they stated that flattr still takes 10% but didn't process much yet.
I wondered about their relevance when I read that by september last year they processed a total of just 1 million micro transactions with the average user flattring 4.5€ per month. I mean I might be wrong but that means that in the best case one million users would all have clicked just one distinct flattr button and all in the last month, that would total to a maximum of 4.5million € / "month" with one million artists reaced. 4.5M€ is MtGox volume of a day and a million users is half of what we already have.
Worst case is the 1000 users clicking one of the same 100 flattr buttons per month and user numbers actually declining with the million transactions having happened over 10 months. Then you would be at 4500€/month with some 1000 users reached.

Well, 1000 users reached is not bad for a single event but it wouldn't make me feel bullish for bitcoin in general.