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Perfectly serious snarkless question - how would that work, financially? You're reselling S3 storage with your value-added service on top - obviously you set yo
by glurgh 13y ago
Perfectly serious snarkless question - how would that work, financially? You're reselling S3 storage with your value-added service on top - obviously you set your prices in a way that pays for your costs, time and generates some sort of profit. Short of adjusting your prices on a daily (or hourly!) basis, how would you be able to accept payment in a currency of such extreme volatility?
- cperciva 13y agoThis is why I don't accept BTC yet -- unless the exchange rate settles down I'm only going to be able to do it via a service which lets me say "I want X USD; make it happen". Coinbase comes close -- the only thing they don't do is allow me to specify at run-time how many USD I want; for some odd reason they need you to "create a button" with an API call before displaying that button on your site, which is a pain to deal with when you have variable payment amounts.
- anyacc 13y agoWhy not add a simple public page to the Tarsnap website that allows the visitor to gift x dollars to the foo@example.com account? That way, bitcoiners can use bitspend.net etc. as a proxy payment provider for the time being. Not leaking metadata on credit card statements that allows to infer that valuable data is stored at Tarsnap (and approximately how much), would be a practical increase in security: Such a leak might prompt an attacker to allocate more resources towards compromising the Tarsnap user's client computer.
- prezjordan 13y agoIIRC you can say "I want users to pay $5 for this" and have Coinbase figure out how many BTC that is.