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BitPay Integrates Bitcoin with Fulfillment by Amazon

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Re: BitPay Integrates Bitcoin with Fulfillment by Amazon

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Post by kseudo »

dangrossman wrote: post #4
kseudo wrote: post #3

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

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 kic…

Cool, thanks for the clarification. So I guess its only a matter of time there are electronics stores accepting BTC online

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dangrossman wrote: post #4
kseudo wrote: post #3

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

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 kic…

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Re: BitPay Integrates Bitcoin with Fulfillment by Amazon

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Post by nym »

reaclmbs wrote: post #7

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.

I help run a guide site for bitcoin newbies trying to buy:

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/

I recommend the following services right now: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/bitme/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/localbitcoins/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/ziggap/

Re: BitPay Integrates Bitcoin with Fulfillment by Amazon

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Post by eric_bullington »

mcantelon wrote: post #15

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

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 [1] http://json-rpc.org/wiki/implementations [2] https://coinbase.com/

EDIT: Clarity, grammar.

Re: BitPay Integrates Bitcoin with Fulfillment by Amazon

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Post by vyrotek »

implr wrote: post #13

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#rg5ztgSzm1g10zm2g25...

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.

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Post by juskrey »

vyrotek wrote: post #17
implr wrote: post #13

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#rg5ztgSzm1g10zm2g25...

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.

A sucker game. Get them, but do not buy them.

Re: BitPay Integrates Bitcoin with Fulfillment by Amazon

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Post by muyuu »

eric_bullington wrote: post #16
mcantelon wrote: post #15

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

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…

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.

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