[HCoop-Discuss] Improved Portal Payment Page Preview (Including Stripe!)

[Sajith T S]

Nathan Kennedy <ntk at hcoop.net> wrote:

> I voiced my bitcoin complaints on -discuss before w.r.t. coinbase.
> 
> My opinion is unchanged; I won't ragequit if we start accepting bitcoin, 
> but I would strongly urge that:
> 1. Any payments are settled in USD so HCoop isn't subject to Bitcoin 
> commodity risk (I haven't read through, I assume that's the case).
> 2. I didn't say this before, but I don't really have a huge problem with 
> previously authenticated users (via credit card) topping up their 
> accounts in bitcoin if that floats their boat. We already know who they 
> are as well as we ever have.  But I would strongly urge that the initial 
> payment be required to be made by credit card.  Or that we have some 
> other minimally meaningful method of verifying identity if someone signs 
> up with bitcoin, which to me sounds like a huge hassle.  Does stripe do 
> this? Their bitcoin page seems to have no information.

Thank you for articulating this here, and in the older thread.  I
agree with Nathan.  I too would be uncomfortable with totally
anonymous sign-ups.  Presumably we're not talking about sign-ups yet?

(My personal bias against Bitcoin originates from the couple of times
a whole bunch of the CS department's machines were left essentially
unusable for everyone else by mining processes.)

-- 
"the lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
                 -- Chaucer.