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BitPay Integrates Bitcoin with Fulfillment by Amazon

85 points by kirian 14y ago

kirian 14y ago
On BitPay site: https://bitpay.com/amazon https://bitpay.com/amazon
kseudo 14y ago
Hummm. Does Amazon know about this? Are they likely to revoke access to anyone availing of this service?
- dangrossman 14y ago
  It shouldn't really matter to Amazon. Their fulfillment service is just an API for saying "take this item from your warehouse and ship it to this address". Amazon doesn't know that you're shipping things in response to a BitCoin payment, versus goodies for KickStarter backers, versus holiday gifts for customers. All BitPay is doing is integrating their API with Amazon's API for you so that receiving a payment can kick off a shipment. It doesn't create any new potential liability for Amazon; they're not touching bitcoins and their payment for the fulfillment service is separate from what they're fulfilling.
  - kseudo 14y ago
    Cool, thanks for the clarification. So I guess its only a matter of time there are electronics stores accepting BTC online
    - rishimoko 14y ago
      There are already many electronics for sale for bitcoins: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Electronics https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Electronics
  - deleted 14y ago
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nym 14y ago
Whoha, that's awesome!
irickt 14y ago
By the way, BitPay is recruiting node.js developers.
reaclmbs 14y ago
Where to buy BitCoins easily? CoinBase is useless since they've "exceeded their maximum daily limit", and Mt. Gox wants me to verify my home address, but I just moved and don't have any bills yet.
- sachingulaya 14y ago
  Coinbase's "daily limit" is, as far as I can tell, a rolling "daily limit". Keep retrying and you can buy bitcoins. Source: I bought BTC on coinbase right before I replied to your comment.
- kirian 14y ago
  Maybe bitinstant.com
- eof 14y ago
  localbitcoins.com will work in a lot of places. ziggap.com is another one similar to coinbase. ziggap uses western union/ money gram and so has higher fees, but less wait time. also have seen btc sold on ebay, but with a pretty big markup. also, you can mine them yourself ;-)
- nym 14y ago
  I help run a guide site for bitcoin newbies trying to buy: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/ I recommend the following services right now: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/bitme/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/bitme/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/localbitcoins/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/localbitcoins/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/ziggap/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/ziggap/
- ufmace 14y ago
  I've had good luck with Bitfloor. They let you do a cash deposit at Bank of America, and it goes instantly to your account. No ID or addresses or anything. Yes, they've been hacked before and lost bitcoins. I figure 1. being hacked once probably makes them a lot more cautious now, and 2. what was stolen was bitcoins that were sitting in user accounts there. You're at very low risk if you don't leave bitcoins sitting in your account - transfer them to a private wallet or convert them to USD immediately.
implr 14y ago
For those who haven't noticed, a single bitcoin is worth almost 47 dollars now, over 30% more than two days ago: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zvzp http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5ztgSzm1g10zm2g25...
- vyrotek 14y ago
  This scares me in ways I don't understand. I feel like I just looked at the price not too long ago and it was $26.
  - juskrey 14y ago
    A sucker game. Get them, but do not buy them.
- craftkiller 14y ago
  I really wish it would crash already. I don't feel comfortable buying any right now for day-to-day purchases because the crash has to be coming.
  - SilasX 14y ago
    ... and, back to $34.
    - nazgulnarsil 14y ago
      and back to $43 this is not a market for weak hands.
- jvm 14y ago
  Note to anyone who's designing cryptographic currency 2.0: stabilize the price next time. It doesn't have to be tied to USD but it should be tied to something. Control over the supply automatically gives you control over the price, you can peg to whatever you want. Global GDP futures perhaps? It would be interesting to have a currency worth a particular percent of global output.
mcantelon 14y ago
What's the best API for doing Bitcoin transactions from a web app?
- eric_bullington 14y ago
  To be honest, bitcoind, the original Bitcoin client has a very accessible json-rpc API [0]. This is the same daemon that runs behind the QT front-end of the "official" Bitcoin client. RPC is not my favorite (gotten spoiled by RESTful), but bitcoind's implementation is easy-to-use, and most languages have nice, easy-to-use json-rpc libraries [1]. You run bitcoind as a headless client on your server. It's pretty robust, and multithreaded. The benefit to that setup is that you are in control of everything, no need to depend on (or pay) a third-party. And there's no need to store Bitcoins on the server beyond what you need for your transactions, since you can set up a cron job to periodically forward x percentage of the balance to an off-site wallet with ease. However, if you want something with a RESTful interface that you don't have to maintain yourself, ycombinator-funded Coinbase appears to have a nice API. But unlike bitcoind (which I've used for several small and one largish project), I've never used coinbase or any of the other third-party APIs. [0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind [1] http://json-rpc.org/wiki/implementations http://json-rpc.org/wiki/implementations [2] https://coinbase.com/ https://coinbase.com/ EDIT: Clarity, grammar.
  - muyuu 14y ago
    That's the kind of set-up that has been hacked to high hell several times. It's not that hard to understand why. Having a computer connected to the net to run bitcoind means that if you get it rooted by any chance, you just lost the entirety of your hot wallet. Please, please stop doing that.
    - tquai 14y ago
      One of bitcoin's strengths is decentralization, and you just told people not to manage their own wallets. How do you accept bitcoin? Please enlighten us.
freefrancisco 14y ago
Anybody trading bitcoins options or futures?

85 points by kirian 14y ago

kirian 14y ago

On BitPay site: https://bitpay.com/amazon https://bitpay.com/amazon

kseudo 14y ago

Hummm. Does Amazon know about this? Are they likely to revoke access to anyone availing of this service?

dangrossman 14y ago
It shouldn't really matter to Amazon. Their fulfillment service is just an API for saying "take this item from your warehouse and ship it to this address". Amazon doesn't know that you're shipping things in response to a BitCoin payment, versus goodies for KickStarter backers, versus holiday gifts for customers. All BitPay is doing is integrating their API with Amazon's API for you so that receiving a payment can kick off a shipment. It doesn't create any new potential liability for Amazon; they're not touching bitcoins and their payment for the fulfillment service is separate from what they're fulfilling.
- kseudo 14y ago
  Cool, thanks for the clarification. So I guess its only a matter of time there are electronics stores accepting BTC online
  - rishimoko 14y ago
    There are already many electronics for sale for bitcoins: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Electronics https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Electronics
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]

nym 14y ago

Whoha, that's awesome!

irickt 14y ago

By the way, BitPay is recruiting node.js developers.

reaclmbs 14y ago

Where to buy BitCoins easily? CoinBase is useless since they've "exceeded their maximum daily limit", and Mt. Gox wants me to verify my home address, but I just moved and don't have any bills yet.

sachingulaya 14y ago
Coinbase's "daily limit" is, as far as I can tell, a rolling "daily limit". Keep retrying and you can buy bitcoins. Source: I bought BTC on coinbase right before I replied to your comment.
kirian 14y ago
Maybe bitinstant.com
eof 14y ago
localbitcoins.com will work in a lot of places. ziggap.com is another one similar to coinbase. ziggap uses western union/ money gram and so has higher fees, but less wait time. also have seen btc sold on ebay, but with a pretty big markup. also, you can mine them yourself ;-)
nym 14y ago
I help run a guide site for bitcoin newbies trying to buy: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/ I recommend the following services right now: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/bitme/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/bitme/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/localbitcoins/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/localbitcoins/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/ziggap/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/ziggap/
ufmace 14y ago
I've had good luck with Bitfloor. They let you do a cash deposit at Bank of America, and it goes instantly to your account. No ID or addresses or anything. Yes, they've been hacked before and lost bitcoins. I figure 1. being hacked once probably makes them a lot more cautious now, and 2. what was stolen was bitcoins that were sitting in user accounts there. You're at very low risk if you don't leave bitcoins sitting in your account - transfer them to a private wallet or convert them to USD immediately.

implr 14y ago

For those who haven't noticed, a single bitcoin is worth almost 47 dollars now, over 30% more than two days ago: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zvzp http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5ztgSzm1g10zm2g25...

vyrotek 14y ago
This scares me in ways I don't understand. I feel like I just looked at the price not too long ago and it was $26.
- juskrey 14y ago
  A sucker game. Get them, but do not buy them.
craftkiller 14y ago
I really wish it would crash already. I don't feel comfortable buying any right now for day-to-day purchases because the crash has to be coming.
- SilasX 14y ago
  ... and, back to $34.
  - nazgulnarsil 14y ago
    and back to $43 this is not a market for weak hands.
jvm 14y ago
Note to anyone who's designing cryptographic currency 2.0: stabilize the price next time. It doesn't have to be tied to USD but it should be tied to something. Control over the supply automatically gives you control over the price, you can peg to whatever you want. Global GDP futures perhaps? It would be interesting to have a currency worth a particular percent of global output.

mcantelon 14y ago

What's the best API for doing Bitcoin transactions from a web app?

eric_bullington 14y ago
To be honest, bitcoind, the original Bitcoin client has a very accessible json-rpc API [0]. This is the same daemon that runs behind the QT front-end of the "official" Bitcoin client. RPC is not my favorite (gotten spoiled by RESTful), but bitcoind's implementation is easy-to-use, and most languages have nice, easy-to-use json-rpc libraries [1]. You run bitcoind as a headless client on your server. It's pretty robust, and multithreaded. The benefit to that setup is that you are in control of everything, no need to depend on (or pay) a third-party. And there's no need to store Bitcoins on the server beyond what you need for your transactions, since you can set up a cron job to periodically forward x percentage of the balance to an off-site wallet with ease. However, if you want something with a RESTful interface that you don't have to maintain yourself, ycombinator-funded Coinbase appears to have a nice API. But unlike bitcoind (which I've used for several small and one largish project), I've never used coinbase or any of the other third-party APIs. [0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind [1] http://json-rpc.org/wiki/implementations http://json-rpc.org/wiki/implementations [2] https://coinbase.com/ https://coinbase.com/ EDIT: Clarity, grammar.
- muyuu 14y ago
  That's the kind of set-up that has been hacked to high hell several times. It's not that hard to understand why. Having a computer connected to the net to run bitcoind means that if you get it rooted by any chance, you just lost the entirety of your hot wallet. Please, please stop doing that.
  - tquai 14y ago
    One of bitcoin's strengths is decentralization, and you just told people not to manage their own wallets. How do you accept bitcoin? Please enlighten us.

freefrancisco 14y ago

Anybody trading bitcoins options or futures?