Cryptocurrency as payment method for Glitch Boosted?

I would love to be able to pay for Glitch boosted using cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Nano, etc without having to transfer funds to my card or to something like Paypal. I think this would increase the number of people using Glitch boosted. Let me know if you have any questions.

perhaps so… but then again how many people will have cryptocurrency?

maybe an idea is to setup coli and when the user donates cryptocurrency they will get glitch boosted (temporary or something else idk)

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oh and i’m moving this to #feature-ideas!

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I don’t think they need to add this. Only a handful people will be able to use it, so I don’t think it’s worth the effort. And, most people who can’t pay with cryptocurrency, but actually want it, will just pay with card.

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I have Cryptocurrency and so do many people. I believe it will be very beneficial for Glitch

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I was saying as another way to pay. Not the only way.

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@youngchief I never said the only way to pay, I still believe it’s not worth the effort and people will pay by card anyway

Some people won’t feel comfortable giving out PayPal info or Card info

Most people will. There isn’t really a point of putting so much effort in adding it when so few people will use it.

Doesn’t take much effort. It’s really easy to do.

Not forcing them to add it. Just giving a suggestion.

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I actually agree with @youngchief in this case, adding the ability to pay with cryptocurrency is very useful, even though I don’t use cryptocurrency myself I do know that cryptocurrency is starting to play a huge part of economics. Not all people trust their banks to keep their money safe. It’s safer in the blockchain! That being said; cryptocurrency is also useful to keep privacy laws simple; hence cryptocurrency is untraceable.

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This is also why it is favored by scammers.

But I do agree, adding cryptocurrency would be cool, I just hope it wouldn’t be abused.

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We all hope it will not be abused.

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Finally some people starting to agree this would be a cool idea if not abused.

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Never used cryptocurrency, probably never will, but I think this is a good idea

“most people won’t use it” is a terrible argument for a reason not to do something, if it’ll help some people it’s worth looking into @EddiesTech

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Yep @youngchief, i’m now convinced that this is beneficial

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Ok, now you have my vote @youngchief :joy:

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Thanks everyone! I enjoy the positivity on this idea!

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[bump (so Glitch staff find it)]

I would recommend you email glitch and link the thread there.

Okay will do @RiversideRocks

@RiversideRocks Do you mind sending the email? It appears I won’t be able to send it any time soon and I don’t wanna forget!

Will send the email now.

Real life example: Twitter gets hacked and posts appear asking people to send cryptocurrency to a Bitcoin address.

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Thats just a group of people abusing it which doesn’t mean that bitcoin themselves are malicious or anything, people abuse glitch and use it in a negative way and that doesn’t make glitch malicious.

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Bitcoin just has a negative connotation…

The coin itself wasn’t designed for this but malicious people started using it for its anonymity

It’s actually pseudo-anonymous because Bitcoin addresses if traced back to someone then it isn’t anonymous your real identity, but that is rare and will likely not happen

They made over 100,000 USD off of that which is insane. Lets just be glad they didn’t do anything that bad. It could have been much much worse.

Very true. It just goes to show many people have weak logins.

It was actually because of a social engineering attack targeting Twitter employees.

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Ahh I see. Didn’t know. Thanks!!

Pretty scary stuff

Yeah. It is quite scary.

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There’s no proof that money was actually sent to them by individual people, there are high chances the “hackers” sent it to themselves to look bigger

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I mean they did make 100k, but maybe not in profit :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I forgot to send back my response from Glitch, Here it is:

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:16 AM Boosted Apps <[email protected]> wrote:
New reply for the ticket #BA00013424   

Hi there, thanks for sharing, we did see the thread! We don't have plans for changing payment options in the near future, but if we do revisit that we now know there is interest in options like this.

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 #BA00013424
 Boosted Apps
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