Questions tagged [merchants]

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Where can I find a list of merchants who accept bitcoins?

Is there a list of merchants who accept bitcoins?
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How can I assure my consumers they are actually paying the correct person? (prevent MITM attacks)

There are many network level attacks that give someone Man in the Middle ability to replace my Bitcoin address with their own. Since there is no way to cancel a transaction, and the best practice is to generate a unique address per sender... How…
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Is there an API for price estimation?

I need to display at my website what a certain amount of Bitcoins will likely cost. I can fetch the latest price using the MtGox API and multiply it by the amount, but for large amounts this is inaccurate because the buy itself will move the price.…
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I need Fiat -> BTC merchant service

Hello bitcoin community. I'm running startup and we think how to accept payments. Our customers are far not geeks and they don't know what BTC is. However, I'd prefer to collect BTC on may wallet, not fiat. I've solved all tax issues in my country…
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Ideal prompt to show to the customer

I am selling SASS solution on my website. How do I ideally educate customer to use bitcoin, which convince them to use bitcoin instead of paypal or other methods.
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What nodes are best for lessening the risk of loss from a race attack

A successful race attack is one where the payment recipient's node receives a spend transaction yet the next block that is mined has a different transaction that spends the same coin. Thus the payment recipient's transaction will not confirm and…
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Any multi-currency accounting ledger that lets me use BTC?

Are there any online or open source (i.e., free, or at least cheap) accounting systems that do multi-currency so that I can record revenues and payments made using BTCs in the same system that I use for USDs? If not, are there any suggestions for…
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What are some examples of companies that have abandoned Bitcoin payment processors in favor of in house Bitcoin integration?

What are some examples of companies that have abandoned Bitcoin payment processors in favor of in house Bitcoin integration? For example which companies previously relied on Coinbase or Bitpay that now accept Bitcoin directly without the assistance…
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What is the most expensive Bitcoin purchase ever made?

Relying only on publicly disclosed data, what is the most expensive Bitcoin purchase that has ever occurred? "Expensive" can be determined either by: Highest purchase price in Bitcoins Highest fiat value equivalent at the time
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How can I process Bitcoin transactions in my store?

What merchant solutions are available to integrate Bitcoin in an online store? Is there a wiki page that describes the different merchant solutions? Note - This question was originally asked specifically for a PHP store, but since most solutions are…
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How to accept payments via Ripple on a website

A web search led to Ripple.com. Is it possible to add the payments via Ripple payment to an e-commerce website? Where can i find source code to implement such Ripple payments? For example, there are few websites which offer payment via Ripple such…
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Largest current merchants accepting Bitcoin?

I am writing some rants about the use of Bitcoin, and would like to sum it up by naming some spearpoint examples of companies and service providers that use Bitcoin. Either solely or side-by-side with conventional currency. But the few lists I came…
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Processing bitcoins on my website completely by myself, with no third-party bitcoin SaaS services

I want to be able to accept and process bitcoins on my website only by mysefl. With no 3rd party bitcoin services. How can I do that? One way is to use Electrum. But its documentation regarding merchant is really bad. Does anyone have experience…
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Which wallets have support for BIP 70 - 72 for merchant message transactions?

Which wallets support merchant message transactions such as bip 70 - 72? I want to build static html page where a user can just send their btc to my address with a message attached to it. The message would just be their email address so I can send…
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How can I find well-connected nodes?

If I am a merchant accepting 0-confirmation transactions I should protect myself against race attacks. Several resources state that I should configure bitcoin daemon to not listen for incoming connections (parameter -nolisten) and only connect to…
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