May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and More

Re:May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and... by aspenmayer on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:08PM (#23196108)

What's the story with purchases via cryptocurrencies? It was in the orignal post as such:

'In other news, we recently ran a poll on Mastodon and Twitter asking whether you’d be interested in using cryptocurrency for PINE Store payments. On the whole, approximately a quarter of all respondents expressed interest in using such payment options. We’re now happy to announce that we’ll be accepting cryptocurrency payments (BTC, BCH, ETH and XRP) in the very near future. The payment infrastructure is currently being set up, and should be available as an option at checkout starting next month.'

Then an edit was added, like so:

'[edit] We no longer intend to support cryptocurrency payments at this time.'

Can you add more context here? A large minority of backers clearly want purchases via crypto, but I understand that implementations are where the rubber meets the road.

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Re:May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and... by simcop2387 on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:10PM (#23196140)

I'd love to hear more too, but I suspect the answer will be that they couldn't get the fees or transfers or etc that they needed to make it worth their time in the end. Which stinks but it's reasonable to drop the support because of it.

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Re:May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and... by aspenmayer on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:18PM (#23196217)

The story of the crypto support journey may illuminate pain points that could be solved by a clever integrator. It's worth knowing even if the answer remains the same.

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Re:May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and... by thinkmassive on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:45PM (#23197853)

> We saw the outcry regarding @BitPay and no longer intend to support it. In the coming weeks and months we'll keep exploring options that will work for us and will be convenient for our community.

https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1261360519266676737

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Re:May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and... by xur17 on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:48PM (#23200052)

The BitPay outcry is totally warranted. If the PineTab folks are reading this, I highly recommend taking a look at OpenNode. It's an api much like BitPay (but without all of their issues). They charge a small fee, and give you USD.

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Re:May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and... by thinkmassive on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:34PM (#23207751)

OpenNode is better than BitPay, but the Pine64 folks are very technically competent and could easily handle running their own BtcPayServer instance. I hope they go that route, although I’ll understand if they start with a managed service until the demand for accepting Bitcoin is proven.

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Re:May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and... by 0xdeadb00f on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:56AM (#23201354)

> The BitPay outcry is totally warranted.

I seem to be OOTL. What happened with BitPay?

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Re:May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and... by xur17 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @08:51AM (#23202977)

They designed their own payment protocol that only works with their wallet. Their original intention was to make the payment processor better (a laudable goal), but no one has adopted it at this point.

This means the vast majority of users see a bitpay invoice, and can't figure out how to pay it with their bitcoin wallets.

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Re:May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and... by thinkmassive on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:37PM (#23207771)

Yep, look up BIP-70 for more details.

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