A friend(@wolever) and I spent the weekend hacking up a small web app which makes it easy for you to sell digital goods for Bitcoins. Once a customer has clicked the “buy” button, we take care of giving them a unique address, monitoring that address for transactions, then securely notifying your website once a minimum number of confirmations have been received. Oh, ya, and then we send you the Bitcoins :)<p>The website is here: BitWillet: http://www.bitwillet.com and there is a demo on the front page.<p>(full disclosure: BitWillet uses the Willet, http://dev.getwillet.com, platform, of which I co-founded)
A good companion for this would be a browser extension that interfaces with the bitcoin network so interactions could be streamlined. The extension does not need to be a bitcoin miner, simply an interface for your existing account(s).<p>The usage pattern would follow:<p>1) Install the extension<p>2) Configure extension with your bitcoin address(es).<p>When encountering a site using bitwillet:<p>1) User clicks "Pay"<p>2) bitwillet overlay appears with generated bitcoin address to send payment to. bitcoin address is clickable.<p>3a) Clicking the bitwillet address interfaces with the bitcoin extension to send the payment from your account to the one provided by bitwillet. A "Are you sure?" confirmation should appear before the transaction is complete.<p>3b) Alternatively, the overlay interfaces directly with the extension and bypasses the need for the user to click the bitwillet address. Confirmation screen should still be used.<p>4) bitwillet overlay updates its text to tell the user the transaction is in process.<p>5) When the transaction is complete, the overlay message changes again to inform the user.
That's really great!<p>Some feedback:<p>- "This may take up to 5 minutes." < you might have to explain why
- "What is BitWillet?" open a new tab instead of opening inside the popup
I'm glad you did this. <a href="http://bitcoinservice.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://bitcoinservice.co.uk/</a> has been doing something similar but without the polished look and feel, and higher fees.<p>The big money in e-goods is with these guys <a href="http://www.clickbank.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.clickbank.com</a>
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