Accept BitCoin

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Anonymous commented
I would love to have beeminder take some amount of money as deposit and keep it or donating it in case of me failing my target! I would never give out my credit card information as that is just way too much of a headache to settle a dispute. Not to mention, with bitcoin as payment option you can accept customers world wide and circumvent the horrid credit card fees.
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Admindreeves (Cofounder, Beeminder) commented
What about giving Beeminder a private key for an account that has enough funds and Beeminder does a transfer if you derail?
I should note, though, that there is apparently exactly zero demand for this, based on the balance of the bitcoin address on http://beeminder.com/donate
It still may be a good marketing move, as Karlson points out. But I'm not inclined to prioritize it unless there's some clamor from existing users.
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Justin Kwok commented
How would this even work? Would you need some sort of escrow account to make Beeminder bitcoin-compatible?
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Karlson Pfannschmidt commented
I would really like to use Bitcoins instead of my credit card because of the high fees.
https://bitpay.com/pricingAdditionally, accepting Bitcoins in itself is already a good marketing move (I’m looking at you
reddit.com/r/bitcoin) potentially alerting a large userbase to Beeminder.