Dropping Bitcoin Donations - why?

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Dropping Bitcoin Donations - why? #1612

Closed test3333 closed 10 years ago

test3333 commented 10 years ago

@M66B Just read it on XDA, why that?

M66B commented 10 years ago

Unstable donation flow, which requires manually attention too often, resulting in complaints and compromising anonymity
Very few donations using Bitcoin
Uncertain future for Bitcoin

M66B commented 10 years ago

Lets make a deal, if you can find three people that donate in Bitcoin this week, I keep accepting Bitcoin for the time being. I bet you can't find three people.

M66B commented 10 years ago

Reason for instability: http://blockchain.info confirms donations very slow, since the technical difficulties they had. When asked about it, the response was "have patience". I had a week patience and the problem was still not solved.

test3333 commented 10 years ago

I will find more than 3 people in this week. About confirmation issues: I do not know much about automatting accepting Bitcoin Donations, I have only used cryptocoins manually for now with local wallets. But in the next weeks I will have more time to do own stuff. And because I am interested in cryptocoins I try to look into payment systems and could be of help maybe.

M66B commented 10 years ago

I am using this simple to use API: https://blockchain.info/api/api_receive

The flow on my side is 100% okay, it is an adapted version of the PayPal donation flow which I have been using for quite some time without a single issue, but as said blockchain.info had failed me too often recently. Before the problems they had, it worked almost flawlesly.

banderos101 commented 10 years ago

Bitcoin may or may not survive, but i hope the idea and reasoning for bitcoin stays on

M66B commented 10 years ago

So, did you find three people?

test3333 commented 10 years ago

Ah goddamn reallife kills me, ... yes, i just asked

Linkz57 commented 10 years ago

I'll throw my hat into the bitcoin bucket. This'll be my first bitcoin purchase, so give me a day to figure it out.

Linkz57 commented 10 years ago

I just donated 0.04561 BTC (21 USD). Hopefully that covers test3333 in case his buddies don't come through. Thanks for a great program, and thanks for slogging through whatever blockchain has going on.

M66B commented 10 years ago

@Linkz57 thanks for your donation. I will keep accepting Bitcoin donations for the time being. Your donation was handled automatically without any problem now.