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January 07, 2018, 05:26:34 PM |
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OP: No you aren't stupid, but bitpay staff is: lacking documentation, no description with manuals on how to make payments with new protocol, no warning on invoice pages, and the most important part:
I wasted a whole day on understanding why Electrum 3.0.4 is not recognizing the new bitpay URL, giving me the following error: "payment URL not pointing to a valid server"
Turned out that their payment protocol server uses some kind of CDN that deny Tor Exit Nodes. My Electrum is communicating via Tor, because my goal is staying fully anonymous on the Internet, which I am successful at. (don't tell me some bs such as "it's impossible". i don't use social networks) So I bought a linux VPS (from a provider that doesn't use bitpay of course) to make an anonymous payment using Electrum headless for a Bitpay invoice of another VPS provider. First of all, I am now migrating away from every service that now use Bitpay for accepting Bitcoins, demonstrating my own protest.
Yes, I am very disappointed with Bitpay not permitting to use Tor with payment protocol. Bitpay definitely doesn't want you to stay private on the Internet.
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