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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 dangrossman »

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 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.

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Post by sachingulaya »

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.

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.

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Post by eof »

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.

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 ;-)

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