Ask HN: Accepting Bitcoin Payments?

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Has anyone here set up online payments using Bitcoin? Did you roll your own solution? Integrate a third-party API? If you used a third party, how did you select a provider?

Edited to add: Do you permit anonymous transactions? Do you offer refunds under any circumstances? How do you handle refunds?

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Braintree recently introduced support for Bitcoin: https://www.braintreepayments.com/features/coinbase

Technically, Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous; they're typically pseudonymous. Braintree requires buyers to use a Coinbase wallet. There are many reasons for this, but refunds is one of them. We enable merchants to easily issue refunds and have a cohesive experience in the Braintree Control Panel, with bitcoin alongside other payment methods like credit cards, Venmo, and Apple Pay. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

If I was going to be doing any e-commerce (with or without bitcoin) I'd be looking at Stripe and Stripe supports bitcoin as well: https://stripe.com/bitcoin

Is this for tax, convenience, or other reasons? I thought one of the powers of Bitcoin was not needing a 3rd party. Then again there's lots of reasons not to roll any part of your own payment process.

Check out http://blockcypher.com. The APIs are easy to use and it just works, which is my main priority when doing development.

I added Coinbase's "pay with bitcoin" button to an e-commerce store a year and a half ago, alongside credit cards and PayPal. One person has used it to buy something for about $2.

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