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October 13, 2017, 01:48:34 PM |
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I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".
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October 13, 2017, 01:57:42 PM |
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I don't think that exists yet. Someone would have to create software that links an e-mailaddress with a bitcoin address, but under the hood it would still be a bitcoin address to bitcoin address transaction.
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lenoli
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October 13, 2017, 02:00:25 PM |
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as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,
good luck...
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ann2230 (OP)
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October 13, 2017, 02:02:44 PM |
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as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,
good luck...
Would that send to the address or to the xapo wallet?
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lenoli
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October 13, 2017, 02:09:01 PM |
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as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,
good luck...
Would that send to the address or to the xapo wallet? i think both of you, sender and receiver must have xapo wallet and send bitcoins via xapo. i was using xapo several years ago, and from faucets i was receiving satoshis using email, not btc address.
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ann2230 (OP)
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October 13, 2017, 02:12:28 PM |
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as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,
good luck...
Would that send to the address or to the xapo wallet? i think both of you, sender and receiver must have xapo wallet and send bitcoins via xapo. i was using xapo several years ago, and from faucets i was receiving satoshis using email, not btc address. I meant something else then. Thanks a lot for your help though.
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October 13, 2017, 03:50:37 PM |
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Bitcoin has nothing to do with email and of course you can't send coins to an email address. Bitcoin is fully decentralized and associating Bitcoin addresses with email addresses would require some form of centralization (which would create a security and privacy risk and completely defeat the purpose and all the benefits of Bitcoin technology in the first place).
So to answer your question, Bitcoin is not PayPal, they are completely on different sides of a spectrum. If you want to have such a feature, you will have to use some centralized service, like someone's website, and fully trust them with those bitcoin's.
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October 13, 2017, 10:13:33 PM |
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What you're asking is like saying you want to send an email to a post office box. You can't.
Send an email, ask for their Bitcoin address, send the Bitcoins there. That's how Bitcoin works.
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poordeveloper
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October 13, 2017, 10:55:22 PM |
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There is no way to send Bitcoins to an email address because addresses can't be chosen by you, they're generated by your Bitcoin wallet.
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October 14, 2017, 03:18:41 AM |
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There is no way to send Bitcoins to an email address because addresses can't be chosen by you, they're generated by your Bitcoin wallet.
But a person could send the equivalent of an encrypted paper wallet to an email address. Including the scan codes.
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October 14, 2017, 08:47:12 AM |
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I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".
some bitcoin wallets supports sending bitcoins via emails like xapo. although most and majority of them are not. so i guess you should try to use xapo wallet if you prefered to use that kind of feauture. and maybe some skilled developers can do that or they can create a third party software just like how paypal works to enable bitcoin address to work as an email adrress.
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setifien19
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October 15, 2017, 08:25:45 AM |
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There must be a combination between both email address and bitcoin address so that you can send / recieve bitcoin using email. I think currently there is no such services .
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poordeveloper
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October 15, 2017, 07:07:32 PM |
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I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".
some bitcoin wallets supports sending bitcoins via emails like xapo. although most and majority of them are not. so i guess you should try to use xapo wallet if you prefered to use that kind of feauture. and maybe some skilled developers can do that or they can create a third party software just like how paypal works to enable bitcoin address to work as an email adrress. But the Bitcoins would be stored in the Xapo account.
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knowcrypto
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October 15, 2017, 08:09:31 PM |
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You could look at some of the invoicing software out there that supports bitcoin. Pretty sure InvoiceNinja has an addon for this.
Then you just connect your wallet and send people an invoice to their email, then they send it through invoice ninja's platform and deposits it into your wallet.
There is some fee's associated with this I'm sure. But worth looking into none the less.
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Zocadas
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October 15, 2017, 08:45:25 PM |
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There is no way to send Bitcoins to an email address because addresses can't be chosen by you, they're generated by your Bitcoin wallet.
But a person could send the equivalent of an encrypted paper wallet to an email address. Including the scan codes. Yes, exactly that. You could generate an address plus private key on bitaddress.org, send needed amount to this address and then send it (including private key) via email.
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poordeveloper
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October 15, 2017, 11:28:23 PM |
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It is important to note that if the email is not encrypted, sending the private key through email is not secure.
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fredo123
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October 16, 2017, 01:25:49 PM |
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I don't know if it gonna works, Bitcoin address is intended for bitcoin address only, Maybe another coming innovations in the near future that will answer all your queries.
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xianbits
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October 16, 2017, 01:35:25 PM |
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What you're asking is like saying you want to send an email to a post office box. You can't.
Send an email, ask for their Bitcoin address, send the Bitcoins there. That's how Bitcoin works.
We have a local app that provides this service and this app is coins.ph. You can use the app to send bitcoins by using your recepient's phone number, email address or even facebook account aside from sending directly to its bitcoin address AS LONG AS your recepient is also a coins.ph user and at the same time, those phone numbers, email address & facebook account are verified and connected to the user's coins.ph account. So we can say it's more on internal transactions. Maybe this is what ann2230 is looking.
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October 16, 2017, 04:21:30 PM |
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You need an exchange for that.
Like Coinbase
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October 16, 2017, 06:33:44 PM |
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As far as I know is that Blockchain supported to send Bitcoin to an email address or even to a phone number in the early days. With the second version of the Wallet, they removed this feature along with other great security features. Nowadays, only Coinbase supports to send Bitcoins to an e-mail address in case the e-mail belongs to an account there.
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