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Processing bitcoins on my website completely by myself, with no third-party bitcoin SaaS services
First, Electrum relies on Electrum servers, which are essentially a third party SaaS for SPV proofs. It's a fine thing to use for most people and as long as you aren't concerned that the server may ...
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Has there been a big uptake of merchants accepting Bitcoin Cash?
Looking at the community created webpage: https://acceptbitcoin.cash/
If you are looking at the percentage of merchants who previously accepted Bitcoin, that now also accept Bitcoin Cash, there is a ...
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Why would a merchant accept Bitcoin?
Because he can sell the bitcoin for dollars. And in many cases, his alternative would be to accept a credit card payment which costs him around 2%. Converting bitcoins to dollars costs around 0.2% -- ...
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Which cloud server provider is best for accepting bitcoin payments with BTCPay Server?
Actually, it's my video :D
Lunanode provides easy "1 click install" process. You can host btcpay server on any other VPS server (like azure, aws, digitalocean etc.) but the process will be ...
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BTCPayServer vs. Bitpay or other for accepting bitcoin payments in online store
It's my highly subjective opinion, but if you're not a government organization, using a service provider like Bitpay is a terrible idea. Bitpay was known to create anti-privacy features, perform KYC, ...
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Is there a compiled list of merchants that are taking lightning network payments for testing?
Not many it seems.
How about this list?
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Home address and transfers?
Bitcoin is not anonymous, it is pseudonymous.
When you send bitcoin to someone, they will tell you what their bitcoin public address is, and then you will send bitcoins to this public address. A ...
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How can PayPal merchants accept bitcoin?
Braintree is owned by PayPal so I believe you would have to integrate with them:
https://www.braintreepayments.com/
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Processing bitcoins on my website completely by myself, with no third-party bitcoin SaaS services
You could build a bespoke solution for accepting Bitcoin by using a bitcoind server - it's not that hard to be honest even though I never found a complete foolproof guide.
Few things to keep in mind -...
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Can a merchant find my other bitcoin addresses in the same wallet if it sends me money to one?
If you are only receiving funds then no, the merchant cannot link the addresses. The problem is if you are also sending them funds. With most wallet software when you create a transaction it doesn't ...
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Receive payments in BTC or USD, but get paid in Bitcoin?
NO . . . you cannot sell Bitcoins to a customer to pay yourself Bitcoins. They - the customer need to buy Bitcoins to have ready to pay for the website item and you need to send a bitcoin price and ...
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Which wallets have support for BIP 70 - 72 for merchant message transactions?
I've been searching for the same and found this article. Below I put the wallets that support Bitcoin URIs (BIP 21) and Payment Protocol (BIPs 70, 71, 72,73). For more info please check the link.
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