Community-run list of Bitcoin merchants (help me fill it!)

[Malharhak]

Hi
bitcoinrep.org is a community list of all website that accept bitcoins as a payment method.
It is designed to provide an easy to access list of ways for people to use their bitcoins.
Community features such as likes/dislikes and comments are here to help people see which websites are popular and trustable.

I don't know about you here, but most of the time when I'm looking for an easy to use and complete list of merchants that accept bitcoins, it gets complicated. This is why I made this website. The goal is for everyone to be able to find what they are looking for, easily.

I always wanted to do something for the bitcoin community, so here I am, this website is my contribution.

What it features:

• Community list of bitcoin merchants. Users can add new merchants
• Likes, Dislikes and comment features so people can know which merchants are trustable
• Searching by keywords
• Clean design: No ads or boring stuff that gets in the way, just the websites
• Fully responsive

Hope you'll like it. And please don't hesitate to add new websites to the list and/or give feedback

[gigica viteazu`]

really nice idea!

[12648430]

When I want to buy something with bitcoin, I usually know what kind of thing I'm looking for and then try to find a bitcoin-accepting vendor. What about categories, or a way to browse the keywords? A tagcloud-style keyword index could be cool...

[Malharhak]

When I want to buy something with bitcoin, I usually know what kind of thing I'm looking for and then try to find a bitcoin-accepting vendor. What about categories, or a way to browse the keywords? A tagcloud-style keyword index could be cool...

Yep that's the next things I will add to the website. Tag generation and categories are already in the database, they're just not browsable yet.

Thanks for the feedback !

[Malharhak]

The website has been updated with support for categories, markdown for people to write nice presentation pages and multi keyword searching

[burnum]

i think you need to look at building a layer on top of google maps, and sell it as an app for cell phones so you are reimbursed for work you put into it.

[Malharhak]

That's a pretty good idea, but that means I should add the possibility to add physical stores with their location. Why not...

[12648430]

Yay, categories!

Minor bug: (in chrome) category list goes past the bottom of the page, no way to scroll it

[Malharhak]

Yay, categories!

Minor bug: (in chrome) category list goes past the bottom of the page, no way to scroll it

Yes if you have a small screen it happens... I'm not sure how to fix this though. There is just too much categories... But yea I noticed that. If anyone has a good idea about that I'd like to hear it

Edit: Never mind, I found a way to add a scrollbar to it.

[katie1348]

Being able to add a physical location or add in a country and region during the submission might help.

You could quickly get swamped with sites, this might help people find things.

For example, people in the US will not be interested in physical stores or items from the UK, in most cases.

K

[Malharhak]

Being able to add a physical location or add in a country and region during the submission might help.

You could quickly get swamped with sites, this might help people find things.

For example, people in the US will not be interested in physical stores or items from the UK, in most cases.

K

That's on my plan, but most of the stores added for now are virtual stores that ship internationally.

I want to add this feature so people can add physical stores/places that accept bitcoin with their address, and then later I can generate a map showing stores arround the user.

[desired_username]

What methods do you use to keep scammers at bay?

Are there any volunteers checking the list or does it have some kind of upvote system?

[Malharhak]

What methods do you use to keep scammers at bay?

Are there any volunteers checking the list or does it have some kind of upvote system?

the initial reason I built this website is to keep scammers at bay. There is a popularity bar on each websites, and people can like/dislike (only once per IP of course). There is also a comment page for each store.

Then if something is reported as a scam I will delete it.

I also plan on adding some features related to these matters like:
* A suspsicious flag that would appear after a certain dislike threshold
* Evaluations (with 5 stars and stuff)

But of course I can't check manually every added stores.

Edit: People can see the public todo-list and vote/comment stuff

[allthingsluxury]

Thanks for adding All Things Luxury to the list, we also sell silver bullion along with Jewelry products. We are introducing a line of authentic diamond engagement rings this month. We have a few already online and are finding huge demand from the bitcoin community. Thanks!

[Malharhak]

Thanks for adding All Things Luxury to the list, we also sell silver bullion along with Jewelry products. We are introducing a line of authentic diamond engagement rings this month. We have a few already online and are finding huge demand from the bitcoin community. Thanks!

You're quite welcome

[Sir Lagsalot]

Thanks, this is cool!

I suggest an option to edit a store once posted. I guess that'd need a password system...

Yeah, I was doing too many things at once and messed up my entry a bit.

[Malharhak]

Thanks, this is cool!

I suggest an option to edit a store once posted. I guess that'd need a password system...

Yeah, I was doing too many things at once and messed up my entry a bit.

I actually already developped the edit system, but didn't put it online because I'm affraid people will replace links, or things like that. I don't know how to enable it in a non-dangerous way.

Maybe putting edits on a "pending" status that I would have to verify, but I don't like this solution.

Anyway if you need to edit an entry you can mail/pm me, as explained in the about section

[Malharhak]

Just a post to say I made a little update : Now the website display shareable URLs, so you can directly link a category/search/whatever to someone.