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Regarding money transfers for different goods and services paid in Bitcoins.

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Whats the use of QR-codes during wallet to wallet transfer?

I want to know hen the QR-code scanning actually takes place. For instance, if I send my wallet address to someone, how does the person verify that the sender is me, and what do I need to do as soon ...
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Easiest way to accept BTC and test

We are building an online game and planning to enable our players to play for bitcoins. Therefore, we need to enable players to deposit and withdraw bitcoins. Which way is the easiest to start ...
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How do I pay Utility Bills anonymously with Bitcoin?

I can get my salary with Bitcoin: https://bitwage.com/ I can get loans with Bitcoin: https://bitbond.com/ Can I pay my utility bills with Bitcoin? If the naming pattern follows, there's a https://...
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Offline payments with Android wallet

This Android application for Bitcoin wallet, claims offline payment as a feature. It says, When you're offline, you can still pay via Bluetooth. A payment is concluded only when the transaction ...
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Ripple partial payments

I've read on the Ripple Wiki page for Transactions about partial payments. I am wondering how a partial payment would look when data is polled about an account? Would the transaction amount be ...
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Bitcoin: what if I was about to sign an offline transaction using the transaction history and I get paid into same address

while using an offline client I have to copy and paste transaction history of the address I want to spend coins from. What if there was a new bitcoin transfer into my address before sending the signed ...
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about bitcoin market price for a shopping mall

I am thinking of making a shopping mall based on Bitcoin payment system. But, as you all know, bitcoin market price experiences sudden rise and drop nowadays and It will also continue to fluctuate in ...
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How do you know how much a product costs in Bitcoins?

When paying with Bitcoins how does that affect the price of the service or item? For example If I buy something that costs 20 CAD using Bitcoins and the exchange rate is 1 CAD = 0.01 BTC does that ...
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How to send lightning payment request to lnurl from Android app with extra comment data?

I'm looking for a way to include extra description (comment) info in a lightning payment request i.e. LUD-12. Either with anchor link: <a href="lightning:[email protected]" comment=&...
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Question about Payment Channels

I was reading the book Mastering Bitcoin written by Andreas about state channels for fast payment processing. There was a part named "Asymmetric Revocable Commitments" that said: given an ...
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Is there already a way for subscription models? (Preferred over lightning)

Has anyone heard of a project that tries (or was successful) to make reliable subscription models possible? I mean a use case where the vendor can rely on his costumer and does not have to worry that ...
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Why would anyone pay with Bitcoin?

A lot of people are committed to building Bitcoin network to be a better payment network. However, why would anyone spend it if it is a store of value and the price is quickly going up, which make it ...
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Pay invoice to offline lightning node

I wonder if there is a way to force a refund. Let's say A makes a payment to B. Later, B finds that he has to refund A, but A is offline. Can B reverse this payment while A is offline? Could it be a ...
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can we have multiple BTC addresses that all of them store their values in the same place?

I am creating my own shop and I will give each user an address to specify who is sending me BTC but when I want to collect all BTC address values to my main address I need to pay fees a lot since each ...
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off-chain payment channels: Do we need to trust "Payment Service Providers"?

A paper entitled: "Privacy in Bitcoin Transactions: New Challenges from Blockchain Scalability Solutions" has tried to investigate privacy issues of the Bitcoin influenced by the solutions for ...
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What info do I need in a form where people can pay/donate with Bitcoin?

I'm a developer and looking to create a form where people can pay/donate money in Bitcoin. Many have suggested to just post the recipient wallet address and let folks take that and go off and pay on ...
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What is the right way to accept bitcoin payments using bitcoind?

I want to implement payments using Bitcoin without any 3rd party services. I already installed full node on my server and configured RPC API. What should I do next? Now I plan to work in the ...
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Can bitcoin be used for instant payment?

As transactions have to be confirmed, does it imply bitcoin cannot used for instant payment?
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Where can I sell domain names and earn in bitcoins?

I want to sell my domain names and receive payments in bitcoins. Some platforms that I know of allow to buy domain names with bitcoins but won't let you sell and earn in BTC. Any platform that allows ...
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Seller asks me for my BTC address to confirm my payment

So I'm down to my first bitcoin transaction on a purchase with a webshop. Now that I'm at the actual checkout process, I'm asked for my bitcoin address so they can confirm my payment. Since this is ...
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Payment reference

Let's imagine I am hosting an online shop. I sell five different items with a price of 1 BTC. Bob buys item A and Alice buys items B. Bob is paying the bill by sending 1 BTC to my Bitcoin address. ...
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POS Receipt payment identification

Lets have a scenario where POS software wants to support bitcoin payments with zero risk. Ideal is to store Merchant's Bitcoin address in POS settings. The intention here is to uniquelly bind receipt ...
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Pay button with 2 receiving addresses

I am new to bitcoin technology, I want to build Bitcoin payment button with 2 bitcoin addresses, first is my site address where I will receive a small commission fee, second is my site seller address. ...
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How can I pay with Bitcoin on overstock.com o.co?

I just registered at overstock.com to buy something, because I heard that they accept bitcoins as of today. But when I checked out, there was no option to pay with bitcoins. Only PayPal and credit ...
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A friend owes me cash, how can he pay that debt in btc?

A friend owes me some money and we agreed to settle that debt in bitcoins. How can he transfer some bitcoins to my account, without me having to pay him for it?
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Destination is not reachable directly and all routehints were unusable - how might I remedy that?

After launching lightningd I get following: 2023-07-20T06:54:46.533Z UNUSUAL 038.............................................................8f--connectd: Feature 28 requires feature 20 2023-07-20T06:...
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Why in crypto casinos payment is mainly in bitcoin? [closed]

Why in crypto casinos payment is mainly in bitcoin, ethereum, tron and other cryptocurrencies, but there is no payment in stablecoins? Isn't it more profitable to accept payments in usdt, usdc, busd? ...
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What is the flow of buying crypto on behalf of users?

I am building a crypto on-ramp for users in emerging markets that allows users to buy crypto via debit/credit cards, mobile money, etc. What is the flow of buying crypto on behalf of users? From ...
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How to identify a transaction in Bitcoin [duplicate]

I have a webshop, and I would accept Bitcoin payment. I have a Bitcoin address where I accept payment. Is it a procedure to pass an id or ask an id to / from the transaction? When I query the received ...
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If my service only accepts Bitcoin, will there be a lot of missed customers who only have non-Bitcoin crypto currencies? [closed]

I'm about to release a service which only takes payments in Bitcoin. I'm wondering if this will impact me negatively in terms of not getting business from people who own other crypto currencies. I don'...
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How to identify the sender from crypto payments

I want my users to deposit crypto into the website for credits, but the biggest issue is getting the input address (the user's address). How can I identify the sender from the transaction (since there ...
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How Many Clients Could Not Send to Bech32 Addresses?

For my client, I have set up a custom BTC payment solution using BTCPay Server. The wallets I have configured in BTCPay Server produce only bech32 (bc1xxx) addresses for payments (cheapest ...
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Double spend problem on a delay tolerant network

I recently read about the Digitally project, an overlay payment scheme for use on mobile phones, whose goals are to extend mobile phone payments to areas with poor connectivity and reduce transaction ...
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How do payment processors like bitpay work?

How do payment processors like bitpay work? As far as i understood you can only have one address per key pair, so do they generate a whole new pair for every payment? Or can this be done using ...
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Can one send one payment to two private keys through 1 QR code?

Is it possible to send via one QR code or bitcoin address one payment that can be divided or split by a percentage of my choice to two private key QR codes, individual users, a percentage of the ...
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blockchain.info receiving address changes - is it OK to put BTC address on the website?

Wallet from blockchain.info change the receiving address from time to time. I guess the rationale is to protect my privacy or something. In reality I'd be more secure in my head if I had the same BTC ...
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Easy way to accept bitcoin payments without external service

Is there a way to accept Bitcoin payments without running a full node or rely on an external service? I'm thinking in some way to validate the transaction and then broadcast it to the network.
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Is there an intermediary that allows me to pay eBay purchases with Bitcoin?

I mostly buy stuff on Ebay since Amazon and Bestbuy don't offer worldwide shipping, I live in southern Asia. I have an account with my local public bank denominated in US Dollar to make my payments ...
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Bitcoin Core Network Configuration

I am having difficulty loading the full node for my new Bitcoin Core wallet. I use a Mac and share a modem with my apartment complex. I believe a manual network configuration is out of the cards for ...
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Error trying to send payments with RPC sendmany

Need help fixing this error. Error trying to send payments with RPC sendmany {"code":-8,"message":"Invalid parameter, duplicated address I a running a NOMP mining pool that has payment job breaking ...
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Can Cryptocoins be spent through payment services?

can Cryptocoins be spent through payment systems like Paypal? i.e. instead of linking to a credit card, linking to the wallet address. or do they have to explicitly accept bitcoins/crytpocoins?
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How to determine if a BTC payment has been done

Scenario: You have a website running on a remote server, and you want to accept BTC donations to a specific address (most likely yours) and to display a "Thank you" message automatically. How do you ...
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How to test bitcoin distribution mechanism

Now I'm developing a bitcoin distribution mechanism (according to users' submitted shares count). The complete workflow is: Users submitted shares to my pool, then my pool submitted these shares to ...
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Coinbase IPN test page not posting data?

On Coinbase under Merchant Profile I'm entering the URL: https://www.scirra.com/handlers/coinbasecallback.ashx For the IPN tester. This ashx page has the code: var r = ""; foreach(string name in ...
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Bitcoin Debit Card without a phone (number) [closed]

Where can I signup for a bitcoin debit card without a phone? There are a number of "bitcoin debit card" providers -- services that issue you a traditional visa/mastercard/etc debit card that ...
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Using HODL invoices as escrow services, nostr integration?

With the growth of the nostr network, it's easy to imagine a whole new family of apps being created that could work in a decentralized manner (Marketplaces, AirBnB, Uber). But for these apps which ...
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Implementing a trustless English auction on Bitcoin

Is it possible to implement an English-auction type mechanic on Bitcoin (trustlessly)? I have tried smart contract implementations in other blockchains. For instance, one straight forward ...
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Looking for Bitcoin/Crypto payment processor that will split payments (pay multiple people from sale)

I'm looking for a crypto payment gateway that will allow me to accept payment for a product. It should support splitting the payment between multiple crypto wallets (multiple people).
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Settling the invoice/payment in lightning while the other party is unresponsive

Given that Alice wants to pay Bob in the lightning network, Bob first creates an invoice (using the python api) for A as follows: request = invoicesrpc.AddHoldInvoiceRequest(hash=r_hash, value=30000) ...
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What is the behavior of the try catch statement in lines 1707-1729 in the ui.cpp in the release 0.1?

In the first public release, ui.cpp has this code on the lines in the subject: void CSendingDialog::OnReply3(CDataStream& vRecv) { int nRet; try { vRecv >> nRet; ...
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