I'm familiar with different options to receive payments in Bitcoin (Blockchain.info, BitPay, Coinbase, Stripe). But how would one devise a solution to have users pay whenever they call some RESTful API endpoints? First thing that came up my mind is the following:
- Have user send some initial amount in Bitcoin when they register for API usage on website via solutions mentioned above integrated on website.
- Then just deduct from their state of Bitcoin for each API call they make.
But is maybe there a solution/standard, where someone wouldn't have to make an account to first transfer Bitcoin and could somehow specify in API call how many Bitcoins to transfer? When I think about it logically, this doesn't seem to be possible as you can't couple together a transfer request with API call, I mean how would you even authorize payment from your personal wallet to the specified address and how much to transfer?
