Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
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Re: Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
#2Superb. This is a really great initiative Ryan. Ive had the great misfortune of having to use postbillpay to pay off my numerous speeding fines and anything that can get me around using that broken website is a phenomenal achievement. All the more so when you do it in a concise modern approach by including bitcoins.
Ill be sharing this with a lot of my friends.
Re: Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
#3For those outside Australia, you can pay most bills at the post office (Australia Post) or online via the post office's PostBillPay service. Basically, AusPost act as a middleman between the biller and the customer. But AusPost only accept Australian Dollar payments.
So from my reading of it, Ryan's project takes a bitcoin payment from the customer, converts it into AUD, then connects to PostBillPay and pays the bill, then send the customer the receipt from PostBillPay.
Bill payments 1.0: Customer -> Biller
Bill payments 2.0: Customer -> PostBillPay -> Biller
Bill payments 3.0: Customer -> BitBillPay -> PostBillPay -> Biller
It's a great idea .. but I imagine if it takes off, AusPost will implement pay-by-bitcoin in their own service.
Re: Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
#4For those outside Australia, you can pay most bills at the post office (Australia Post) or online via the post office's PostBillPay service. Basically, AusPost act as a middleman between the biller and the customer. But AusPost only accept Australian Dollar payments. So from my reading of it, Ryan's project takes a bitcoin payment from the customer, converts it into AUD, then connects to PostBillPay and pays the bill…
Actually that's exactly the point of this project. I run a startup called CoinJar (the first VC-backed Bitcoin startup in Australia) and Bitbillpay consumes CoinJar Checkout API.
I will open source the project once it has gained some initial traction. But before that, I will probably write a few tutorial-like blog posts to demonstrate how to integrate the seamless and unbranded Bitcoin checkout solution into any online business.
But of course, Bitbillpay is actually easier and faster to use than POSTbillpay. For one thing, you don't have to enter your credit number, and you can automatically receive an email with the receipt. (Australia Post will ask you to "print out".)
Re: Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
#5Superb. This is a really great initiative Ryan. Ive had the great misfortune of having to use postbillpay to pay off my numerous speeding fines and anything that can get me around using that broken website is a phenomenal achievement. All the more so when you do it in a concise modern approach by including bitcoins. Ill be sharing this with a lot of my friends.
Thanks. Actually you can use this service to pay all kinds of bills. There are almost 700 billers in Australia that accept POSTbillpay. It's just that the BPAY® trade mark is a lot more reputable and familiar to Aussies.
Re: Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
#6For those outside Australia, you can pay most bills at the post office (Australia Post) or online via the post office's PostBillPay service. Basically, AusPost act as a middleman between the biller and the customer. But AusPost only accept Australian Dollar payments. So from my reading of it, Ryan's project takes a bitcoin payment from the customer, converts it into AUD, then connects to PostBillPay and pays the bill…
Actually that's exactly the point of this project. I run a startup called CoinJar (the first VC-backed Bitcoin startup in Australia) and Bitbillpay consumes CoinJar Checkout API. I will open source the project once it has gained some initial traction. But before that, I will probably write a few tutorial-like blog posts to demonstrate how to integrate the seamless and unbranded Bitcoin checkout solution into any onli…
What do you mean by "the first VC-backed startup in Australia"?
Re: Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
#7Are you enrolled to AUSTRAC in accordance to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act of 2006?
Re: Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually that's exactly the point of this project. I run a startup called CoinJar (the first VC-backed Bitcoin startup in Australia) and Bitbillpay consumes CoinJar Checkout API. I will open source the project once it has gained some initial traction. But before that, I will probably write a few tutorial-like blog posts to demonstrate how to integrate the seamless and unbranded Bitcoin checkout solution into any onli…
What do you mean by "the first VC-backed startup in Australia"?
CoinJar is backed by AngelCube[0].
[0]: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/coinjar
Re: Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
#9Are you enrolled to AUSTRAC in accordance to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act of 2006?
AUSTRAC has explicitly mentioned that Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are currently out of scope of AML/CTF.
Bitbillpay doesn't accept fiat currencies. It's not a money transmitter. You can't use the service to get cash.
Re: Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually that's exactly the point of this project. I run a startup called CoinJar (the first VC-backed Bitcoin startup in Australia) and Bitbillpay consumes CoinJar Checkout API. I will open source the project once it has gained some initial traction. But before that, I will probably write a few tutorial-like blog posts to demonstrate how to integrate the seamless and unbranded Bitcoin checkout solution into any onli…
What do you mean by "the first VC-backed startup in Australia"?
He means first VC-backed bitcoin startup ;P