We accept Bitcoins
2010 Jan 27
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We accept Bitcoins @ Satoshi Nakamoto
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Satoshi Nakamoto
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satoshinakamotonetwork@proton.me
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https://satoshinakamoto.network
giik
We accept Bitcoins
January 27, 2010, 09:10:16 AM
To promote the use of Bitcoins in commerce, I've started this topic.
Now anyone can post sites where Bitcoins are accepted 
giik
January 27, 2010, 09:11:59 AM
http://www.teslamap.com/
I also accept BitCoins as payment. Please contact me if you
would like to pay in BitCoins.
Link: http://www.teslamap.com/download.html
This site removed the possibility to pay with Bitcoins. Too
bad. 
giik
January 27, 2010, 09:14:42 AM
http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/
The mother of all Bitcoin-accepting websites 
sirius
January 28, 2010, 01:16:26 AM
Good idea, made sticky 
sirius
February 01, 2010, 10:35:06 AM
http://www.livingsoulnation.org/ "LivingSoulNation.org
is now using Bitcoin as its currency. Use it to trade with us or use it
to donate Bitcoin(s)."
Not sure what they trade, though 
BitcoinFX
February 01, 2010, 10:26:11 PM
I'm starting to offer Bitcoin eCurrency exchange services through my
new website http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/
I'm also looking into offering Bitcoin users a web based Forex API to
day trade the BTCUSD currency pair in the future. However, I first need
to generate enough Bitcoins to act as the broker
sirius
February 02, 2010, 02:58:24 AM
http://btc2psc.bt.funpic.org/ Sell your Bitcoins for 10€
Paysafecard codes.
livingsoulnation
February 05, 2010, 06:23:14 AM
Quote from: sirius-m on February 01, 2010, 10:35:06 AM
http://www.livingsoulnation.org/ "LivingSoulNation.org
is now using Bitcoin as its currency. Use it to trade with us or use it
to donate Bitcoin(s)."
Not sure what they trade, though
We are selling ‘indulgences' just like the Roman Catholic Church used
to. Just kidding.
Utilizing someone's exchange service would be nice. We are accepting
donations to start, and if someone wanted us to link back to their site
(links or banners), or promote their exchange we would certainly do that
for some BitCoins. We are associated with PNNAC.ORG, a private
freedom-based society that may also be interested in the same things.
Their contact info is on the site.
Let's start some dialogue and see where it takes us. I'll check out
the existing exchanges and if they look reasonable I'll contact
them.
BlueSky
February 06, 2010, 09:56:29 AM
This will be what makes bitcoin successful, being able to exchange it
for goods & services(not just an exchange service).
Virtual currency (nothing like bitcoin) can become successfull in
being accepted for real goods & services, it just takes a little
time. Qcoin was popular here in China but is being put down by the
Chinese central bank.
See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ#Q_coin and
here
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117519670114653518-FR_svDHxRtxkvNmGwwpouq_hl2g_20080329.html
Well I'm in China, for things like getting documents translated to
Chinese and maybe some goods (starting with cheaper items) I can post. I
also have access to plenty of poor students who I might be able to
convince to contribute their time (for programming, website design, logo
design etc.) for bitcoins.
I myself am an English teacher so I haven't much to offer as a remote
service.
NewLibertyStandard
February 09, 2010, 11:26:04 PM
Welcome to the Liberty
Swap Specialty Shop!
We Ship Internationally!
SmokeTooMuch
February 10, 2010, 12:15:01 AM
Hi, one thing just came to my mind and I want to share the idea with
you guys.
Is there any free/cheap software or CMS for building an online
auction house like ebay ?
I really like the idea of eBay with BTC 
EDIT: ok, found some stuff here http://www.hotscripts.com/category/php/scripts-programs/auctions/,
maybe i will set something up, hmm ...
ec
February 15, 2010, 09:50:18 PM
I have started an experimental service for anonymous storage using
encfs, sshfs and TOR:
http://isj6esrpkl5kgi5r.onion/
Please let me know what you think
SmokeTooMuch
February 15, 2010, 11:42:15 PM
you should state some info about your service on the page.
couldn't find anything about up/download speeds or traffic limits.
ec
February 16, 2010, 09:38:51 AM
Quote from: SmokeTooMuch on February 15, 2010, 11:42:15 PM
you should state some info about your service on the page.
couldn't find anything about up/download speeds or traffic limits.
Thank you for your interest! My server sits on a 100MBit network, but
I guess the bandwidth is somewhat limited by TOR, so it's "unlimited".
Actually, the 1GB "limit" isn't enforced for this reason either
While I will do my best to keep my server on line, I of course don't
expect anyone to trust me, and I therefore suggest that other people set
up similar services and let people have multiple backups at different
places (maybe combined with unionfs-fuse or similar).
I of course can't compete with dropbox etc, but this should be an
excellent place to back up sensitive (your encrypted bitcoin wallet?)
data limited in size.
ihrhase
February 23, 2010, 04:04:51 PM
Quote from: giik on January 27, 2010, 09:10:16 AM
To promote the use of Bitcoins in commerce, I've started this topic.
Now anyone can post sites where Bitcoins are accepted
I am interested in real goods exchange for BITCOIN
I am looking for Corn, Malt (Hopped or not), Malted wheat, barley and
rye
I am going to "mix my labor" with these resources to generate a
product that I will accept bitcoins in exchange for...
I know the e-trade aspect is the easy link to increase the usage and
therefore value of this exchange product, but without a real product
exchange, you will be hard pressed to gain the widespread usage for
stable value and common usage...
DannyM
February 27, 2010, 08:48:09 PM
I will send you physical comic books for your bitcoins. I'll try to
work out a more formal system in the future, but for now you can pm me
your interests or contact details and I'll let you know what I have that
might fit and we can make a deal.
seq2010
February 28, 2010, 02:52:40 AM
I would like to offer my services in exchange for Bitcoins. I am a
master certified mechanic, and can offer a help desk style phone in
service for anyone stuck trying to fix their car and needs some
help.
PM me if your interested.
steve-
riX
March 02, 2010, 05:42:20 PM
I have 244 Travian Gold that I am willing to trade
for bitcoins. They are transferable to *.se servers only.
I will edit this post if I trade them.
SheriffWoody
March 05, 2010, 02:39:07 AM
I am planning on getting a dedicated website for this, maybe a tor
hidden service, but anyway.
I am a university student and I highly believe in free education, so
I will be gradually uploading the notes from all of my classes so that
the general public can become more educated. This is just the beginning
of my notes, and as I am a psychology major, the next upload sprees will
be specializing more in psychology with the higher level courses.
I am not going to charge anything, however, bitcoin donations would
be appreciated.
If you wanted to donate to me, here is my address:
1JfyQHPFQoMnyWUmUeLzm6zbi1Rc3hGrKY
Psychology101: http://rapidshare.com/files/359091364/Psyc_101.zip.html
Family: http://rapidshare.com/files/359091228/Family.zip
Chinese Culture: http://rapidshare.com/files/359094826/Chinese_Culture.zip
The Madhatter
March 16, 2010, 10:25:34 PM
Link2VoIP (www.link2voip.com)
accepts Bitcoin as payment.
Now you can get phone service for Bitcoins.
How's that for useful?
ihrhase
March 17, 2010, 12:07:00 PM
Quote from: madhatter2 on March 16, 2010, 10:25:34 PM
Link2VoIP (www.link2voip.com)
accepts Bitcoin as payment.
Now you can get phone service for Bitcoins.
How's that for useful?
It would be infinitely more so If I could find the BTC Rate....
The Madhatter
March 17, 2010, 01:12:54 PM
I emailed support and asked them. (I've been a customer for 4 years.
I was also the one who suggested that they accept BCs.)
They told me that they are matching New Liberty Standard's BC/USD
rate for the time being.
I sent them a payment today and I received a credit. Looks like it
works.
ihrhase
March 17, 2010, 02:51:15 PM
So their unlimited service is $9.99 a mo (correct?)
That would equate to:
9.99 * 146.22BTC/
1458.54 BTC/mo.
Unless there are people local to me that wish to purchase my consumer
goods for BTC the marginal use of BTC does not exceed $ for me yet....
The Madhatter
March 17, 2010, 03:33:04 PM
I pay $9.99 for a local phone number. Been a customer for 4 years. It
works great.
I also use them to connect my mobile calls. (Mobile calls here are
seriously an arm+leg with our local provider.)
Oh, and I also resell some of their stuff to friends to make a few
extra bucks.
DannyM
March 17, 2010, 04:01:07 PM
Quote from: ihrhase on March 17, 2010, 02:51:15 PM
Unless there are people local to me that wish to purchase my consumer
goods for BTC the marginal use of BTC does not exceed $ for me yet....
I know I'm probably not local, but what are the consumer goods you
are selling?
SmokeTooMuch
March 29, 2010, 02:14:37 AM
Hehe, that was my idea you thief
But there was a lack of customers, so I closed my service.
Good luck with that
The Madhatter
March 29, 2010, 03:43:58 AM
You'll get customers eventually. Stay patient!
Link2VoIP
April 08, 2010, 07:10:26 PM
Actually, we just polished up our Bitcoin integration. Payments into
our system are fully automated now.
Quote from: madhatter2 on March 16, 2010, 10:25:34 PM
Link2VoIP (www.link2voip.com)
accepts Bitcoin as payment.
Now you can get phone service for Bitcoins.
How's that for useful?
bitcoinuser
April 09, 2010, 03:04:32 AM
Quote from: madhatter2 on March 16, 2010, 10:25:34 PM
Link2VoIP (www.link2voip.com)
accepts Bitcoin as payment.
Now you can get phone service for Bitcoins.
How's that for useful?
that rocks madhatter. i love link2voip. progressive!
pnnac
April 13, 2010, 09:38:02 PM
Our Society (The Canadian Free Man On The Land Society - www.pnnac.org) accepts Bitcoins as a
donation. We use the funds to pay for our monthly VPS hosting bill with
Link2VoIP.com.
Link2VoIP
April 13, 2010, 11:57:04 PM
What a small world.
BitcoinFX
April 15, 2010, 08:32:45 AM
I have recently revised my Liberty Reserve Exchange Service website -
BitcoinFX - http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/ I will soon be funding and
maintaining the availability of both BTC and LR at a 100% ratio against
the exchange rate.
I have chosen to use a http://www.nic.cz.cc/ domain because it is purposefully
obscure ! It is a paid domain for 2 years and is automatically
renewable. Its an extremely inexpensive method for hosting a domain with
SSL support and Privacy Protect. ( Less than $5 for 2 years ) I have
full control over my A Record etc. and the web host is very stable. In
the future I will be adding SSL and the LR and Bitcoin API's to make the
exchange service 100% automated, as long as their are available
funds.
I'm also advertising in Bitcoin in Money Share Forums / e-currency
Investment Forums
http://www.moneyshareforum.com/index.php?showtopic=3513 -
Bitcoin P2p Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency - Free - Open
Source Software Project !
Whilst I would not recommend ‘investing' in most of the ‘sites' on
this forum. Searching through the posts and links will give some of you
an incite into just how popular e-currencies are with this type of
community. This type of activity makes up a massive percentage of
e-currency transactions and I consider it very relevant in the
successful future of Bitcoin.
Thank you.
The Madhatter
April 15, 2010, 04:23:13 PM
For those of you that don't already know; most of these ‘investments'
are ponzi schemes.
BitcoinFX
April 16, 2010, 05:57:34 AM
Quote from: madhatter2 on April 15, 2010, 04:23:13 PM
For those of you that don't already know; most of these ‘investments'
are ponzi schemes.
Indeed they are and you should exercise extreme caution before even
considering ‘investing' and also view most HYIP's as a game of
chance.
I can be considered a trusted admin and my Private Investment Club
opportunity is intentionally ‘low level' and ‘low risk'.
Sabunir had expressed interest in the original BitcoinFX Private
Investment Club opportunity, so I have offered a 100% free share, for my
usage of the banner designs. I will offer more free shares to Bitcoin
Forum members in the future.
Please understand that what I'm effectively doing is ‘backing'
Bitcoins with my profitable Forex Trading abilities, as well as,
creating an interest and demand for Bitcoins with existing e-currency
users at the same time. I have ‘backed' both projects with $1000 LR to
avoid any issues.
This is a much more logical approach than just offering an ‘exchange'
service where you are effectively just ‘giving away' USD or EUR for
‘digital tokens' ...
However, I fully understand your concerns.
thufir
April 23, 2010, 05:13:52 AM
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sirius
April 23, 2010, 10:22:45 AM
Quote from: thufir on April 23, 2010, 05:13:52 AM
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Awesome! I'll add a "Trade" page on the bitcoin.org main site, where
we can list btc-accepting services.
komoto
April 30, 2010, 02:15:12 AM
hello
i found these urls while surfing on i2p:
mybitcoin.i2p (resolves to
nwpqc65o333ifqq7wqovo2ito5y3ca6rfygz3p6pusau26t6tpca.b32.i2p)
xqzfakpeuvrobvpj.onion (on tor. they advertise this url in the login
area)
mybitcoin.com (loads the same site from the public internet. they use
cacert for ssl.)
(some sort of web-based wallet for bitcoin)
privacyshark.com
(sells domain names for bitcoins)
The Madhatter
May 02, 2010, 07:00:39 PM
That mybc thing is nice for non-geeks. I signed up last night to try
it out. This is something I can setup for my 'ol pappy and he'd be able
to actually use it.
thufir
May 04, 2010, 09:40:02 PM
I would like to point out then that http://vekja.net has always provided a Free
web based Bitcoin account even better than the mybitcoin service
mentioned above (in addition to the non-free Email and Web service that
I announced earlier).
I should have announced this separately before, as there is such
great value in a Bitcoin Web App. The value is not just for Grandpa, but
is also for anyone who wants to use Bitcoin on a mobile device (or any
platform where there is no client yet available).
If you haven't done so already, please come check out the https://Vekja.net Bitcoin web app.
Registration is free and does not require an email like the mybitcoin
service currently does.
If you have any questions or suggestions, just use the built in
messaging system to send a message to admin. I will be glad to help.
For the record: I hereby promise that the Vekna.net Bitcoin account
will always remain free (that includes spam free). This was always my
intent from the beginning.
The Madhatter
May 04, 2010, 10:55:54 PM
I signed up for a vekja free Bitcoin account. Very nice. It is very
simple. Almost too simple for my tastes tho. :/ I mean, I'm sure it
works as expected but the interface is really lacking features.
MyBitcoin has some nice stuff like payment history, the ability to
change your Bitcoin address (which I totally need btw), some basic
statistics, and an addressbook (very handy; try typing in a long ugly
Bitcoin address from a Blackberry or iPhone – no thanks).
The need for an email address mystifies me also. I wonder why they
require that. Service announcements?
Edit: I see a transaction history page. I must have scrolled right
past it. The interface is all on one page??
Edit 2: Looks like MyBitcoin can do payment notes too (I wonder
if/how this works to/from Bitcoin and MyBitcoin).
thufir
May 04, 2010, 11:12:54 PM
Yes, there is a transaction history.
I was always planning an address book. I just wanted to break up the
interface into multiple pages first.
I will also add the ability you request for creating new (and
multiple) addresses.
Thank you for the feedback and suggestions madhatter2!
NewLibertyStandard
May 05, 2010, 08:55:36 AM
I just added a
second line to my graphs showing the closing price of bitcoins at
the Bitcoin Market.
The Madhatter
May 06, 2010, 09:46:39 AM
Hmm.. looks like MBC has PGP-signed email payment notifications. Also
looks like they don't require the email address to signup. Maybe they
read this forum?
Hey! waves @ MBC's owners Sign up and tell us your
plans!
The Madhatter
May 06, 2010, 10:07:27 PM
Haha! I actually have some of my elderly family members using MBC
now.
Maybe mum should get 9,000 coins for Mother's day!
teppy
May 19, 2010, 05:18:33 PM
I run the MMO A Tale in the Desert. We charge $13.95/month for the
game, and pay about $0.74 in merchant and gateway fees.
We'll now accept Bitcoins as an alternate payment method. The price
per month is 2000 BTC, which according to the exchange is a discount
right now.
Instructions:
Visit http://www.atitd.com and
download the game client. Native Windows, Linux and OSX versions are
available.
Install + Run the client, and create a trial character.
If you like the game, send 2000 BTC to:
17CJvRrNdqSPN3Zs2dWfNY6GoCiMRfNG2T to activate your account.
In the message field, include your character name and shard; I'll then
credit you for a month of gameplay.
Right now this is done manually, so the lag could be anywhere from
minutes to the next morning.
Teppy
laszlo
May 19, 2010, 06:21:50 PM
Teppy, just so you know, you can't include a message if you send to a
bitcoin address, only if you send to an IP address. The way we usually
do it is we issue a new address to each person we ask to send us money
so that we know it was that person who sent it.
D҉ataWraith
May 19, 2010, 07:52:42 PM
Can I just butt in with a question on why that is? To me it seems
that if Bitcoin uses public-key cryptography to transfer ownership of
the coins, it should be a trivial matter to include a short message that
is only readable by the recipient.
teppy
May 19, 2010, 10:33:33 PM
Hmm - is there any text field associated with an address based
transaction? It does make accepting Bitcoins a bit more cumbersome.
Would including such a text field as part of the protocol compromise
anonymity somehow?
Hypothetically, a short text message could be encoded into
transactions by charging, say, 2000-2000.999999 Bitcoins and encoding
the text portion in the fractional part of the amount.
Or does that solve a problem that doesn't exist?
Is there already a protocol in place to say "make me a new address to
send BTC to" ?
laszlo
May 20, 2010, 02:41:51 AM
You can create new addresses all you want.. the way most people are
doing this is they generate a new address for the user and display it to
them. When payment is received to that address it credits the user. You
can just generate a new address for each transaction, like a transaction
ID essentially. Link2VOIP automated it all and some others have as well,
simply by using the built in JSON-RPC functionality.
Satoshi would have to address the other questions about including
messages..
Satoshi Nakamoto
May 20, 2010, 09:43:42 PM
Quote from: DataWraith on May 19, 2010, 07:52:42 PM
Can I just butt in with a question on why that is? To me it seems
that if Bitcoin uses public-key cryptography to transfer ownership of
the coins, it should be a trivial matter to include a short message that
is only readable by the recipient.
Almost but not quite. Bitcoin uses EC-DSA, which can only do digital
signing, not encryption. RSA can do both, but I didn't use it because
it's an order of magnitude bigger and would have been impractical.
We accept Bitcoins
2010 Jan 27 See all postsSatoshi Nakamoto
satoshinakamotonetwork@proton.me
https://satoshinakamoto.network
To promote the use of Bitcoins in commerce, I've started this topic. Now anyone can post sites where Bitcoins are accepted
http://www.teslamap.com/This site removed the possibility to pay with Bitcoins. Too bad.
http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/
The mother of all Bitcoin-accepting websites
Good idea, made sticky
http://www.livingsoulnation.org/ "LivingSoulNation.org is now using Bitcoin as its currency. Use it to trade with us or use it to donate Bitcoin(s)."
Not sure what they trade, though
I'm starting to offer Bitcoin eCurrency exchange services through my new website http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/
I'm also looking into offering Bitcoin users a web based Forex API to day trade the BTCUSD currency pair in the future. However, I first need to generate enough Bitcoins to act as the broker
http://btc2psc.bt.funpic.org/ Sell your Bitcoins for 10€ Paysafecard codes.
We are selling ‘indulgences' just like the Roman Catholic Church used to. Just kidding.
Utilizing someone's exchange service would be nice. We are accepting donations to start, and if someone wanted us to link back to their site (links or banners), or promote their exchange we would certainly do that for some BitCoins. We are associated with PNNAC.ORG, a private freedom-based society that may also be interested in the same things. Their contact info is on the site.
Let's start some dialogue and see where it takes us. I'll check out the existing exchanges and if they look reasonable I'll contact them.
This will be what makes bitcoin successful, being able to exchange it for goods & services(not just an exchange service).
Virtual currency (nothing like bitcoin) can become successfull in being accepted for real goods & services, it just takes a little time. Qcoin was popular here in China but is being put down by the Chinese central bank.
See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ#Q_coin and here
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117519670114653518-FR_svDHxRtxkvNmGwwpouq_hl2g_20080329.html
Well I'm in China, for things like getting documents translated to Chinese and maybe some goods (starting with cheaper items) I can post. I also have access to plenty of poor students who I might be able to convince to contribute their time (for programming, website design, logo design etc.) for bitcoins.
I myself am an English teacher so I haven't much to offer as a remote service.
Welcome to the Liberty Swap Specialty Shop!
We Ship Internationally!
Hi, one thing just came to my mind and I want to share the idea with you guys.
Is there any free/cheap software or CMS for building an online auction house like ebay ?
I really like the idea of eBay with BTC
EDIT: ok, found some stuff here http://www.hotscripts.com/category/php/scripts-programs/auctions/, maybe i will set something up, hmm ...
I have started an experimental service for anonymous storage using encfs, sshfs and TOR:
http://isj6esrpkl5kgi5r.onion/
Please let me know what you think
you should state some info about your service on the page.
couldn't find anything about up/download speeds or traffic limits.
Thank you for your interest! My server sits on a 100MBit network, but I guess the bandwidth is somewhat limited by TOR, so it's "unlimited". Actually, the 1GB "limit" isn't enforced for this reason either
While I will do my best to keep my server on line, I of course don't expect anyone to trust me, and I therefore suggest that other people set up similar services and let people have multiple backups at different places (maybe combined with unionfs-fuse or similar).
I of course can't compete with dropbox etc, but this should be an excellent place to back up sensitive (your encrypted bitcoin wallet?) data limited in size.
I am interested in real goods exchange for BITCOIN
I am looking for Corn, Malt (Hopped or not), Malted wheat, barley and rye
I am going to "mix my labor" with these resources to generate a product that I will accept bitcoins in exchange for...
I know the e-trade aspect is the easy link to increase the usage and therefore value of this exchange product, but without a real product exchange, you will be hard pressed to gain the widespread usage for stable value and common usage...
I will send you physical comic books for your bitcoins. I'll try to work out a more formal system in the future, but for now you can pm me your interests or contact details and I'll let you know what I have that might fit and we can make a deal.
I would like to offer my services in exchange for Bitcoins. I am a master certified mechanic, and can offer a help desk style phone in service for anyone stuck trying to fix their car and needs some help.
PM me if your interested.
steve-
I have 244 Travian Gold that I am willing to trade for bitcoins. They are transferable to *.se servers only.
I will edit this post if I trade them.
I am planning on getting a dedicated website for this, maybe a tor hidden service, but anyway.
I am a university student and I highly believe in free education, so I will be gradually uploading the notes from all of my classes so that the general public can become more educated. This is just the beginning of my notes, and as I am a psychology major, the next upload sprees will be specializing more in psychology with the higher level courses.
I am not going to charge anything, however, bitcoin donations would be appreciated.
If you wanted to donate to me, here is my address: 1JfyQHPFQoMnyWUmUeLzm6zbi1Rc3hGrKY
Psychology101: http://rapidshare.com/files/359091364/Psyc_101.zip.html
Family: http://rapidshare.com/files/359091228/Family.zip
Chinese Culture: http://rapidshare.com/files/359094826/Chinese_Culture.zip
Link2VoIP (www.link2voip.com) accepts Bitcoin as payment.
Now you can get phone service for Bitcoins.
How's that for useful?
It would be infinitely more so If I could find the BTC Rate....
I emailed support and asked them. (I've been a customer for 4 years. I was also the one who suggested that they accept BCs.)
They told me that they are matching New Liberty Standard's BC/USD rate for the time being.
I sent them a payment today and I received a credit. Looks like it works.
So their unlimited service is $9.99 a mo (correct?)
That would equate to:
9.99 * 146.22BTC/
1458.54 BTC/mo.
Unless there are people local to me that wish to purchase my consumer goods for BTC the marginal use of BTC does not exceed $ for me yet....
I pay $9.99 for a local phone number. Been a customer for 4 years. It works great.
I also use them to connect my mobile calls. (Mobile calls here are seriously an arm+leg with our local provider.)
Oh, and I also resell some of their stuff to friends to make a few extra bucks.
I know I'm probably not local, but what are the consumer goods you are selling?
Hehe, that was my idea you thief
But there was a lack of customers, so I closed my service.
Good luck with that
You'll get customers eventually. Stay patient!
Actually, we just polished up our Bitcoin integration. Payments into our system are fully automated now.
that rocks madhatter. i love link2voip. progressive!
Our Society (The Canadian Free Man On The Land Society - www.pnnac.org) accepts Bitcoins as a donation. We use the funds to pay for our monthly VPS hosting bill with Link2VoIP.com.
What a small world.
I have recently revised my Liberty Reserve Exchange Service website - BitcoinFX - http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/ I will soon be funding and maintaining the availability of both BTC and LR at a 100% ratio against the exchange rate.
I have chosen to use a http://www.nic.cz.cc/ domain because it is purposefully obscure ! It is a paid domain for 2 years and is automatically renewable. Its an extremely inexpensive method for hosting a domain with SSL support and Privacy Protect. ( Less than $5 for 2 years ) I have full control over my A Record etc. and the web host is very stable. In the future I will be adding SSL and the LR and Bitcoin API's to make the exchange service 100% automated, as long as their are available funds.
I'm also advertising in Bitcoin in Money Share Forums / e-currency Investment Forums
http://www.moneyshareforum.com/index.php?showtopic=3513 - Bitcoin P2p Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency - Free - Open Source Software Project !
Whilst I would not recommend ‘investing' in most of the ‘sites' on this forum. Searching through the posts and links will give some of you an incite into just how popular e-currencies are with this type of community. This type of activity makes up a massive percentage of e-currency transactions and I consider it very relevant in the successful future of Bitcoin.
Thank you.
For those of you that don't already know; most of these ‘investments' are ponzi schemes.
Indeed they are and you should exercise extreme caution before even considering ‘investing' and also view most HYIP's as a game of chance.
I can be considered a trusted admin and my Private Investment Club opportunity is intentionally ‘low level' and ‘low risk'.
Sabunir had expressed interest in the original BitcoinFX Private Investment Club opportunity, so I have offered a 100% free share, for my usage of the banner designs. I will offer more free shares to Bitcoin Forum members in the future.
Please understand that what I'm effectively doing is ‘backing' Bitcoins with my profitable Forex Trading abilities, as well as, creating an interest and demand for Bitcoins with existing e-currency users at the same time. I have ‘backed' both projects with $1000 LR to avoid any issues.
This is a much more logical approach than just offering an ‘exchange' service where you are effectively just ‘giving away' USD or EUR for ‘digital tokens' ...
However, I fully understand your concerns.
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Awesome! I'll add a "Trade" page on the bitcoin.org main site, where we can list btc-accepting services.
hello
i found these urls while surfing on i2p:
mybitcoin.i2p (resolves to nwpqc65o333ifqq7wqovo2ito5y3ca6rfygz3p6pusau26t6tpca.b32.i2p)
xqzfakpeuvrobvpj.onion (on tor. they advertise this url in the login area)
mybitcoin.com (loads the same site from the public internet. they use cacert for ssl.)
(some sort of web-based wallet for bitcoin)
privacyshark.com
(sells domain names for bitcoins)
That mybc thing is nice for non-geeks. I signed up last night to try it out. This is something I can setup for my 'ol pappy and he'd be able to actually use it.
I would like to point out then that http://vekja.net has always provided a Free web based Bitcoin account even better than the mybitcoin service mentioned above (in addition to the non-free Email and Web service that I announced earlier).
I should have announced this separately before, as there is such great value in a Bitcoin Web App. The value is not just for Grandpa, but is also for anyone who wants to use Bitcoin on a mobile device (or any platform where there is no client yet available).
If you haven't done so already, please come check out the https://Vekja.net Bitcoin web app. Registration is free and does not require an email like the mybitcoin service currently does.
If you have any questions or suggestions, just use the built in messaging system to send a message to admin. I will be glad to help.
For the record: I hereby promise that the Vekna.net Bitcoin account will always remain free (that includes spam free). This was always my intent from the beginning.
I signed up for a vekja free Bitcoin account. Very nice. It is very simple. Almost too simple for my tastes tho. :/ I mean, I'm sure it works as expected but the interface is really lacking features.
MyBitcoin has some nice stuff like payment history, the ability to change your Bitcoin address (which I totally need btw), some basic statistics, and an addressbook (very handy; try typing in a long ugly Bitcoin address from a Blackberry or iPhone – no thanks).
The need for an email address mystifies me also. I wonder why they require that. Service announcements?
Edit: I see a transaction history page. I must have scrolled right past it. The interface is all on one page??
Edit 2: Looks like MyBitcoin can do payment notes too (I wonder if/how this works to/from Bitcoin and MyBitcoin).
Yes, there is a transaction history.
I was always planning an address book. I just wanted to break up the interface into multiple pages first.
I will also add the ability you request for creating new (and multiple) addresses.
Thank you for the feedback and suggestions madhatter2!
I just added a second line to my graphs showing the closing price of bitcoins at the Bitcoin Market.
Hmm.. looks like MBC has PGP-signed email payment notifications. Also looks like they don't require the email address to signup. Maybe they read this forum?
Hey! waves @ MBC's owners Sign up and tell us your plans!
Haha! I actually have some of my elderly family members using MBC now.
Maybe mum should get 9,000 coins for Mother's day!
I run the MMO A Tale in the Desert. We charge $13.95/month for the game, and pay about $0.74 in merchant and gateway fees.
We'll now accept Bitcoins as an alternate payment method. The price per month is 2000 BTC, which according to the exchange is a discount right now.
Instructions:
Visit http://www.atitd.com and download the game client. Native Windows, Linux and OSX versions are available.
Install + Run the client, and create a trial character.
If you like the game, send 2000 BTC to: 17CJvRrNdqSPN3Zs2dWfNY6GoCiMRfNG2T to activate your account.
In the message field, include your character name and shard; I'll then credit you for a month of gameplay.
Right now this is done manually, so the lag could be anywhere from minutes to the next morning.
Teppy
Teppy, just so you know, you can't include a message if you send to a bitcoin address, only if you send to an IP address. The way we usually do it is we issue a new address to each person we ask to send us money so that we know it was that person who sent it.
Can I just butt in with a question on why that is? To me it seems that if Bitcoin uses public-key cryptography to transfer ownership of the coins, it should be a trivial matter to include a short message that is only readable by the recipient.
Hmm - is there any text field associated with an address based transaction? It does make accepting Bitcoins a bit more cumbersome. Would including such a text field as part of the protocol compromise anonymity somehow?
Hypothetically, a short text message could be encoded into transactions by charging, say, 2000-2000.999999 Bitcoins and encoding the text portion in the fractional part of the amount.
Or does that solve a problem that doesn't exist?
Is there already a protocol in place to say "make me a new address to send BTC to" ?
You can create new addresses all you want.. the way most people are doing this is they generate a new address for the user and display it to them. When payment is received to that address it credits the user. You can just generate a new address for each transaction, like a transaction ID essentially. Link2VOIP automated it all and some others have as well, simply by using the built in JSON-RPC functionality.
Satoshi would have to address the other questions about including messages..
Almost but not quite. Bitcoin uses EC-DSA, which can only do digital signing, not encryption. RSA can do both, but I didn't use it because it's an order of magnitude bigger and would have been impractical.