As you can see in the screenshot BitPay is now forcing us customers to register, identify ourselves and set up a wallet on BitPays website to increase their user base --- in order to pay with bitcoins for a pizza. This is some NSA bullshit. Us customers whom they are siphoning out from all online stores where BitPays payment gateway have been implemented into. Online store owners who most likely thought BitPay was a smooth and easy way to implement another payment gateway/bitcoin. Now they will be losing customers instead.
This is extremely shitty for bitcoin and what bitcoin stands for. We are supposed to be able to send bitcoin freely to an address without being forced to register anywhere. That is exactly what a p2p bitcoin payment / transaction is: from one address to another.
I therefore suggest that all of us:
STOP USING BITPAY - NEVER pay an invoice with them again. NEVER!!!
Email all your favorite online stores who uses BitPay and ask them to immediately gateway to any of the following (in no particular order):
- BTCPay: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BTCPay and https://btcpayserver.org/
- CoinPayments: https://www.coinpayments.net/
- CoinGate: https://coingate.com/
I will be emailng something like this:
"Dear online store,
BitPay, i.e. the company you are using for bitcoin payments, have now started to force us customers to register an account on their website and will ask us for a scan of ID, passport, selfie with passport, video recording saying random words and a proof of address in order to let us pay with bitcoins in YOUR online store. Neither I nor my friends support this and will therefore never shop here until this is changed. Would you be interested in using a payment method where you are asked to submit all of those requirements? Most definitely not. So why force us?
I kindly ask you to immediately change your bitcoin payment gateway to any of the following:
- CoinPayments: https://www.coinpayments.net/
- CoinGate: https://coingate.com/
- BTCPay: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BTCPay and https://btcpayserver.org/
They are cheaper, better, has better support, offers EUR/USD withdrawals, and likeable by all in the bitcoin community. The only reason BitPay is "the biggest" is because they were first.
There is an ongoing BitPay boycott in the whole bitcoin community. Your website will guaranteed be blacklisted on lots of bitcoin websites (with millions of users..) and marked as potential fraud in case you keep using BitPay. I can guarantee you will lose all bitcoin customers.
Best regards"
This is a real serious threat. Please spread the information and upvote for visibility. The biggest bitcoin gateway is going in the wrong direction. Lets kick them out of this community for good. Last thing we want to is a company stopping the adoption and making it harder to use bitcoin.
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