Re: Anyone can suggest a BitCoin processor to the OpenBSD Foundation? BitPay has become terrible

2018-03-28 Thread Bob Beck
So, related to this topic, Apparently BitPay has now fixed us up again. I have put the button back on the web site, if anyone wants to try a bitcoin donation is is supposed to be possible again

Re: Anyone can suggest a BitCoin processor to the OpenBSD Foundation? BitPay has become terrible

2018-02-18 Thread Pavan Maddamsetti
Hi Bob, I was going to suggest Stripe, but it seems they have very recently discontinued support for Bitcoin. You can read their reasons why here: https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support Perhaps the problems with BitPay are not due to suspected fraud / money laundering, but other business

Re: Anyone can suggest a BitCoin processor to the OpenBSD Foundation? BitPay has become terrible

2018-02-16 Thread Ashish Gulhati
Hi Bob I know you don’t want suggestions involving holding your own Bitcoin wallet but I’m going to suggest this anyway because: 1. I don’t think any other processors exist that will do what you want, and even if they do you’ll run into similar problems as you had with BitPay. 2. Selling Bit

Re: Anyone can suggest a BitCoin processor to the OpenBSD Foundation? BitPay has become terrible

2018-02-16 Thread Ashish Gulhati
Hi Bob I know you don’t want suggestions involving holding your own Bitcoin wallet but I’m going to suggest this anyway because: 1. I don’t think any other processors exist that will do what you want, and even if they do you’ll run into similar problems as you had with BitPay. 2. Selling Bi

Re: Anyone can suggest a BitCoin processor to the OpenBSD Foundation? BitPay has become terrible

2018-02-16 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Bob, I know one or 2 people who have moved a reasonable amount of money through kraken.com In my humble experience Kraken have been ok to deal with ... and seem cost effective enough compared to coinbase... they were faster to process verification than Bitstamp.. in our humble experience I h

Anyone can suggest a BitCoin processor to the OpenBSD Foundation? BitPay has become terrible

2018-02-16 Thread Bob Beck
So, as some of you may know, the OpenBSD Foundation has accepted BitCoin donations for some time via BitPay.com BitPay was convenient for us since they will sell the BTC donations immediately, and convert to Canadian Dollars. We then periodically get bank transfers of the balance, and this works