non-USD membership payments: evaluate alternative payment providers

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non-USD membership payments: evaluate alternative payment providers #511

Open dckc opened 6 years ago

dckc commented 6 years ago

current arrangement lasts only thru Apr 23

see also: non-USD membership payments: p2p wallet #512

context: https://github.com/rchain/bounties/issues/446#issuecomment-373931669

ian-bloom commented 6 years ago

BTC Payment Processing possibilities:

BitPay - already implemented on Co-op registration site (private repo), but BitPay account has been disabled (they mistakenly thought we were selling tokens instead of memberships). @evanjensen can we please resurrect the account so that we won't have to teach our code to speak to another Payment Processor?
CoinBase Merchant Services - has BTC payment processing through API. USA based and licensed in states.

dckc commented 6 years ago

@ian-bloom aims to re-activate bitpay

ian-bloom commented 6 years ago

Co-op General Manager Lilia (LiliaR: on Discord) is attempting to sort out BitPay merchant account reactivation. This would be the easiest option, requiring far less coding of the registration webapp.

AyAyRon-P commented 6 years ago

Hey @kitblake

I know there are a lot of great initial verification options out there that could help us expedite the process but when it came to formally approving someone to the discord channel we could then use the appear.in video chat to verify the person. I agree with you that an initial automated process could help us 1) organize the information more efficiently 2) ensure security by using existing measures set by the API 3) allow us a smoother transition for the new member from sign up to the first impression 'welcome' appear.in video.

To your point I had all of those issues as well when signing up for KuCoin, gatehub, and also Changelly.

Again, here is the boiled down list of companies that I felt would be suite our needs: Jumio.com - look at their use cases, they work with Coinbase/Gdax Yodlee.com - money transfer/payment and verification Synapsefi.com - money transfer/payment and verification

dckc commented 6 years ago

I did make a new issue for scalable KYC: #553, eventually. But I had it confused with this one for so long that I won't blame others for doing likewise.

kitblake commented 6 years ago

Ok, I transposed my comment to #553 and deleted it here, @AyAyRon-P maybe you can 're-answer' me and do the same. Then we can delete these thread correction posts and keep it all clean.

jimscarver commented 6 years ago

I thought the point of bitcoin is that we do not need a payment provider. Can't we just post a bitcoin address where to send bitcoin to us and then post the transaction id of the transaction to be applied to membership.

Automating this requires showing the QR code of where to send bitcoin etc. Any verification necessary can be done in the normal KYC process.

RChain not accepting bitcoin suggests a dysfunction of RChain that is not acceptable and needs to be corrected immediately in my view.

dckc commented 6 years ago

I thought the point of bitcoin is that we do not need a payment provider.

We devoted a separate issue to that option: non-USD membership payments: p2p wallet #512