To accelerate the mass adaptation to cryptocurrency - [New Update, Telegram Bot]

[artofwar]

Hello there. Recently me and my friend has created a program to allow merchant accepting bitcoin for their online shop.

We have been frustrated with our previous attempt to create a bitcoin friendly shop before and vowed to create something more friendly to merchants.

The idea is to make the installation as stupid as possible. No third party, no fees, no long syncing. what you have to do is to provide your xpub (master public key) and it will be ready to use.

You control your own bitcoin. you can setup your wallet using any medium, it will only need your xpub to work.

It is still in early stage development. I hope you guys can contribute to make this project bigger and better.

We name this project "Bitcart". Although there is a lot of project named as such, but we are sure this project will attract different audiences.

You can check out our project. We are open to ideas and suggestions.

https://t.me/bitcartcc
https://github.com/MrNaif2018/bitcart

python rocks!!!

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UPDATES:
[Installation using telegram bot]

Ok, new update for our progress. We have variety of installation method.

What is this installation will do? As im not a technical person, the simplest analogy is, If you install bitcart, you are the site owner/server owner.

Which mean, you can host their shop in your server.  in other word, you are the "shopify" for your user. your user can setup their shop as simple as 3 click.

1. pick a shop template.
2. add xpub to generate receiving addresses.
3. point A record to the server under your server.

First installation method:

1.Head up here, https://github.com/MrNaif2018/bitcart-docker
2. read and read and read follow instructions
3. and then read and read and follow instruction. (until now, I still dont know what is this docker thing means. zzz)

OR

You can just use your telegram:

1. Search for this bot @bitcartinstallerbot
2. insert your server ip, username, password
3. BOOM.. installed!!




In near future, we complete various shop template so your user can use.
Also, we will have a telegram bot for server owner. So, your user, can just use telegram to setup their shop.
1. start bot
2. send xpub
3. send product picture
4. product details.
5. Ip address will be given to update their A record.
6. BOOM.. they can start selling.
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Thanks to fellow bitcoinians who helped us on our journey, frustration after frustration. But we wont back down. No matter if its negative or positive, We appreciate your comment and help.
Here are the people who helped us in our early learning process.

pooya87 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4675338.msg42192404#msg42192404 , https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5062441.msg47536549#msg47536549
gentlemand https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4849637.msg43730558#msg43730558
LeGaulois https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4849637.msg43731727#msg43731727
shield132 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4849637.msg43731960#msg43731960
OmegaStarScream https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5049531.msg46824331#msg46824331
hdtqisg https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5049531.msg46827739#msg46827739
Bergqvist https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5049531.msg46899183#msg46899183
AdolfinWolf https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5049833.msg46847968#msg46847968
mmo_online_1981 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5049833.msg46951970#msg46951970
MadGamer https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5063890.msg47638168#msg47638168
mocacinno https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5063890.msg47638420#msg47638420
ETFbitcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5065037.msg47672772#msg47672772
Zin-Zang https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5065037.msg47676670#msg47676670
HeRetiK https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5065037.msg47677068#msg47677068
bob123 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5065037.msg47696157#msg47696157
Wind_FURY https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5065037.msg47725827#msg47725827
khaled0111 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092782.msg49032127#msg49032127
Heisenberg_Hunter https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092782.msg49040673#msg49040673
BitMaxz https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092782.msg49053041#msg49053041
Abdussamad https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092782.msg49057412#msg49057412
Lucius https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092782.msg49065938#msg49065938
hamburger https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=20856 (in pm)

Thank you so much. we are hungry for ideas, suggestions and contribution. Please write to us here or telegram group.

God Bless.

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[artofwar]

Docker images now available! https://github.com/MrNaif2018/bitcart-docker

To install, first run ./setup.sh, which will download git, clone repository and make needed adjustments. If you can't use this shell script, do it manually, we are always here to help

https://hub.docker.com/r/mrnaif/bitcart

[TheNewAnon135246]

Do you happen to have a love demo available? Would love to see what it looks like/how the UX is.

[MrNaif]

Do you happen to have a love demo available? Would love to see what it looks like/how the UX is.

Do you mean website running live for you to see? If so, not yet but it will be easy for us to set it up.

[artofwar]

Do you happen to have a love demo available? Would love to see what it looks like/how the UX is.

Do you mean website running live for you to see? If so, not yet but it will be easy for us to set it up.

Hi guys, this is my friend, me and him has been working on this project since the beginning.

[TheNewAnon135246]

Do you happen to have a love demo available? Would love to see what it looks like/how the UX is.

Do you mean website running live for you to see? If so, not yet but it will be easy for us to set it up.

That is exactly what I mean. It's much more convenient if potential users can check it out without having to install it.

[MrNaif]

Do you happen to have a love demo available? Would love to see what it looks like/how the UX is.

Do you mean website running live for you to see? If so, not yet but it will be easy for us to set it up.

Well, I think I got what you meant. Here are some screenshots:







And I will set up live demo tomorrow. (7 pm or later GMT+3)

[MakeMoneyBtc]

Been waiting for this kind of project for a long time since you cannot find a platform where you can see multiple items sold with bitcoin in one place. One question, do you have any escrow feature or something like this? Or clients are buying directly from a shop and you're just the third party that connects them? Waiting for the live demo to see how it looks and how it works

[artofwar]

Been waiting for this kind of project for a long time since you cannot find a platform where you can see multiple items sold with bitcoin in one place. One question, do you have any escrow feature or something like this? Or clients are buying directly from a shop and you're just the third party that connects them? Waiting for the live demo to see how it looks and how it works

imagine shopify, or any ecommerce platform.

we are building something so you can be your own "shopify".

we dont have escrow for now, but we can develop such if you show example to us.

later on we will develope aliexpress scrapping so you can dropship any product from aliexpress automatically using any product keyword you like.

get product automatically from aliexpress --->> show product in your website -----> client pay you using bitcoin --->>you convert bitcoin into cash ---->>> you buy that product using your credit card in aliexpress and send it to your client.

[vv181]

I've just checked out your Github,  I think the readme files need further explanation about your project.

Anyway, Why would you create a separate repository for docker and manual installation?

[MrNaif]

Yeah, I didn't have enough spare time, today I will clarify readme files. About separate repo for docker, I thought that it will be needed to separate it, as it is not directly connected to main project.

[TheNewAnon135246]

What exactly have you done besides forking BTCpay?

[MrNaif]

Well, we didn't fork, but rewritten from scrath in python. Main bonus already is that it uses electrum for easy use and setup. So it doesn't require syncing, install-and-use system. And you may think that it is fork or something, but no, it is another project, and we decide to start from implementing things btcpay had, and then adding new things, for example buyer's side shop, the things in screenshots will be like admin panel. We decided to go opensource and do upload and open thread in bitcointalk so we can get early community, ideas and thoughts. Note that it is only alpha version, so things(site template too) may be changed.

[artofwar]

What exactly have you done besides forking BTCpay?

you mean the web template? yeah I have told naif a million times dont use btcpay template in any way. People will misunderstand us. we dont have a designer for now.

But we tried experimenting with btcpay last year hoping that it will help our work.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5049531.msg46823799#msg46823799

Btcpay was meant to be use by user who already have build their shop using bitpay. (bitpay fork)

but it is not for us. well at least not for me, because Im not a programmer, im also not into techies complicated stuff. im just a normal user who see what will be good for a normal user like me.

I told naif that we should create something that can be plug and play, no need to know deeper about technical stuff.

so there you go, bitcart was born. but its still in alpha stage, a lot of things need to be done.

I think later on we will work on wordpress plugin too.

[MrNaif]

Sorry that I didn't launch demo today, will continue it tomorrow. We had some problems with servers. And then if you see
the repository(docker one especially), I was changing some settings, so now settings for your bitcart instance will lie in .env file in conf folder, there is .env.sample in repository as example. So expect to see demo tomorrow, and then will document it more and continue main development. ( For example, displaying product image/video on invoice checkout).

[MrNaif]

So, here it is! I have set up live demo.
Please, note that it is early alpha version, a lot may/will be changed.
Also, it is running on a weak server, sorry, but that's all we can provide for now.
But now I will write in https://github.com/MrNaif2018/bitcart-docker about how live demo was set up, so everyone can set it up too. We will have a better set up later, it is again early alpha.
So, enjoy!
EDIT: looks like bitcointalk doesn't like the link, strange, will just put a space between demo, and between other part of link and tk domain. and other part of link, don't forget to remove space.
https://demo. bitcartcc. tk
Screenshot of link:

[MrNaif]

I have written a guide how the demo was set up, and in general it is a guide how to set up bitcart for now, enjoy!
https://github.com/MrNaif2018/bitcart-docker/blob/master/README.md

[TheNewAnon135246]

Well, we didn't fork, but rewritten from scrath in python. Main bonus already is that it uses electrum for easy use and setup. So it doesn't require syncing, install-and-use system. And you may think that it is fork or something, but no, it is another project, and we decide to start from implementing things btcpay had, and then adding new things, for example buyer's side shop, the things in screenshots will be like admin panel. We decided to go opensource and do upload and open thread in bitcointalk so we can get early community, ideas and thoughts. Note that it is only alpha version, so things(site template too) may be changed.

It still looks like a 1:1 fork of BTCpay, like the payment gateway for example: https://i.imgur.com/4ejVwd1.png

BTCpay also allows you to create a POS, add products + pictures etc.

Edit: I also can't find a reference to BTCpay in your License, while you obviously used their resources.

[MrNaif]

I know, but as I said it is early stage. And we wanted to start from something, we decided to implement things like they had first, and start adding new things. This is opensource project, feel free to suggest your ideas/open issues/pull requests. As was said before also, we don't have a designer for now, but changing design is one of our main things-to-do for now.
EDIT: We're not going to use anything from btcpay, this gave us initial idea and some design, but in the end we will change it all anyway, so I don't see any needs in it now. Main thing that you probably didn't notice that it is very alpha stage, and it all can change.

[TheNewAnon135246]

Looking at the screenshots you posted you are using their entire backend. I suggest you read this and edit your License: https://help.github.com/en/articles/dmca-takedown-policy