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

[Dan Frumin]

On March 28, 2014 at 8:36:59 PM, Sajith T S (sajith at hcoop.net) wrote:
> Nathan Kennedy 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.)
> 

Yuck! Why would people do that? 
Anyway, I agree with you and NTK that we shouldn't allow signups with bitcoin, but I don't see much problems (apart from the technical ones perhaps) with allowing people to up their balance with BTC. That is, *through* a BTC payment service; all the accounting is still done in dollars :)

PS: thanks to Clinton for updating the portal :]

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