Bitcoin donate options

[willmcgugan]

Hi,

I'm new to Bitcoin and certainly intrigued by it.

What are the current options for a 'donate now' type button on a web page? I know its simple to publish your receiving address, but I'm hoping there is some service where the user can click a button and then confirm a dialog to donate X bitcoins to a webmaster.


Regards,

Will

[kseistrup]

Well, there's something like YouTipIt, although it's not quite what you asked for.

The signature bar at the bottom of this post is another possibility.

Cheers,

[BitterTea]

Step 1) Sign up for a MyBitcoin account.

Step 2) Go to Merchant Tools.

Step 3) Use the button code generator to create a button. Leave it unencrypted.

Step 4) Copy the HTML code and paste it into your website.

Step 5) Change this

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="1.00">

to this

Code:

<input type="text" name="amount">

This adds a payment button and a text box where the user can enter an amount. If you know HTML, you can change that to a select list or some other method of the user entering an amount.

[SmokeTooMuch]

We haven't created a URI scheme like bitcoin:// yet, so you have to use a service like MyBitcoin.
(Note: I have not tested MyBitcoin, yet.)

[Luke-Jr]

We haven't created a URI scheme like bitcoin:// yet

Yes, we have...

[biqs4zi4f]

I tried to figure out what the most portable Javascript way of doing this is and wrote an article about it, here you go:
http://leo.bogert.de/2012/02/22/simple-bitcoin-donate-button/

[jim618]

Gary Rowe wrote up a how-to for bitcoin URI links on his blog:
http://gary-rowe.com/agilestack/2012/01/09/how-to-accept-bitcoins-on-your-blog-with-no-code/

Both MultiBit and Electrum now support Bitcoin URIs as per BIP21.
Edit: I believe this is targeted to go into the Satoshi client V0.6 but am not 100% sure.