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(Score: 2) by Snow on Monday June 04 2018, @03:07PM (12 children)
The bitcoin option is not working.
Also, maybe look into accepting other crypto currencies (Bitcoin Cash specifically). bitpay is a good option.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday June 04 2018, @05:45PM
The masters of this tech site are a bunch of ludites who hate cryptos, so dont see it happening anytime soon.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 04 2018, @06:42PM (4 children)
Yeah, that's our bad. We should have pushed out a small update when Stripe disabled it. I didn't think anyone would actually try to use bitcoin or I would have. I mean the fees are more than the sub last I checked.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Monday June 04 2018, @08:22PM (1 child)
Bitcoin fees are lower now, but they will raise again.
Bitpay offers payment services for other cryptos (as well as bitcoin) through a single interface.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 04 2018, @11:06PM
Yep. We used to be set up using BitPay but then they went and drastically changed their API to where it appeared at casual glance to be more secure but in actuality it only made us code monkeys jump through a lot of extra hoops for zero actual benefit. So we declared that they know not what the fuck they are doing and can get bent.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Wednesday June 06 2018, @10:21PM (1 child)
will there be any working bitcoin option?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 07 2018, @12:12AM
Anything's possible but it won't be soon. Stripe has stopped accepting BitCoin entirely and the perl I wrote for the BitPay API would have to be entirely thrown out and rewritten to function at all and I'm not inclined to do so given the idiocy of BitPay's dev team. Which would mean research and then likely writing more API interfacing code from scratch. That would be all fine and good if we didn't already have a lot of work promised for the next update and it weren't already going to be late.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday June 06 2018, @03:16PM (4 children)
initial coin offering of SoylentNewsCoin to hold subscriber karma. Surprised no one has suggested this. Not sure if I'm serious or kidding. Would get crazy PR, sounds fun/hilarious to implement, also a complete waste of time, yet ...
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday June 06 2018, @03:45PM
Those ICOs are going to be cracked down on very soon. I think some people will end up in jail.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday June 06 2018, @04:36PM
Could we tie the SN coin to our folding at home team?
I want all of the worthless currency. ALL OF IT!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @01:08PM (1 child)
This was the basis of dogecoin
so why not?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday June 07 2018, @05:53PM
Thats pretty insightful AC, I'll send you 1 karma of SoylentCoin as soon as the ICO is complete
(Score: 2) by G-forze on Friday June 08 2018, @06:30AM
Another vote for BCH from me. I don't like to spread my credit card info around if I can avoid it.
If I run into the term "SJW", I stop reading.