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Post by daveloyall » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:43 PM UTC

bkuhn wrote: post #20

daveloyall wrote: post #10

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Yes. Also, their available payment options seem a little behind the times.

I think you'll find that it's very difficult to set up other payment options with 100% Free Software. If Conservancy were willing to use proprietary software on our website for payment options, we could probably implement others somewhat easily. PayPal is annoying, but at least it integrates easily and doesn't require you to install proprietary Javascript or the like on your own website (like stripe.com does). Bitcoi…

    $ sudo apt-get install bitcoind
    $ mkdir ~/.bitcoin
    $  echo rpcpassword=password! > ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
    $ chmod 600 ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
    $ bitcoind -testnet &
    $ bitcoind -testnet getnewaddress SomeStringCalledAccount

Post by daveloyall » Fri, Dec 05, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

bkuhn wrote: post #22

daveloyall wrote: post #21

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Bradley Kuhn? :) $ sudo apt-get install bitcoind $ mkdir ~/.bitcoin $ echo rpcpassword=password! > ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf $ chmod 600 ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf $ bitcoind -testnet & $ bitcoind -testnet getnewaddress SomeStringCalledAccount Note the -testnet bit. I don't actually have any idea how bitcoin works. The commands above created a lot of binary files under ~/.bitcoin/testnet3 and spit out a magic-looking stri…

I don't see in there all the accounting configurations you'd need to integrate that with Conservancy's accounting system, nor all the legal research to figure out how it impacts Conservancy's Form 990 filings, nor all the workflow code to make sure transactions are auto-imported, identified with people who want to be identified, so they can be sent their t-shirts. Too often, people think "it's easy for me to set some…