Bitbillpay
Finance and crypto
bitcoin bill payments
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How HN took it
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful way to pay bills with Bitcoin, easier than PostBillPay
From 2 comments
Superb. This is a really great initiative Ryan. Ive had the great misfortune of having to use postbillpay to pay off my numerous speeding fines and anything that can get me…
cup on HNActually that's exactly the point of this project. I run a startup called CoinJar (the first VC-backed Bitcoin startup in Australia) and Bitbillpay consumes CoinJar Checkout API.…
zhoutong on HN
Clever proof-of-concept for a checkout API
From 1 comment
I think teaching a kitten to read your credit card and arrange it's kibble into a binary representation would be easier than using the POSTBillPay website. So this project is a…
lessnonymous on HN
Objections
May require an Australian Financial Services License
From 2 comments
Further to my response to a comment stating that this does not fall foul of AUSTRAC's requirements, I think it does break the law with respect to the Corporations Act's…
jimmcslim on HNIt would probably argued that under the Corporations Act 2001 as administered by ASIC you are probably offering a financial service here, and are therefore required to hold an…
jimmcslim on HN
No chargeback recourse for payers
From 1 comment
and then the only person who can do a charge-back if required is you...
blinker21 on HN
Requests
Make the home page the bill pay form
From 1 comment
Since the service you offer is so simple, why not have the home page BE the bill pay form, with some peripheral explanation boxes? I.e. you navigate to the site, and the first…
chiaro on HN
Open source the project
From 1 comment
Actually that's exactly the point of this project. I run a startup called CoinJar (the first VC-backed Bitcoin startup in Australia) and Bitbillpay consumes CoinJar Checkout API.…
zhoutong on HN
Questions
Is the service enrolled with AUSTRAC
From 1 comment
Are you enrolled to AUSTRAC in accordance to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act of 2006?
sepbot on HN
How a similar AUD service would be classified
From 1 comment
Thanks for the link. I wouldn't want to rely on my interpretation of reading that Act to keep myself out of trouble! There are so many links that go to fairly unhelpful…
maxden on HN
Alternatives named
PostBillPay via Australia Post
From 1 comment
For those outside Australia, you can pay most bills at the post office (Australia Post) or online via the post office's PostBillPay service. Basically, AusPost act as a middleman…
lessnonymous on HN
BPAY
From 1 comment
Thanks. Actually you can use this service to pay all kinds of bills. There are almost 700 billers in Australia that accept POSTbillpay. It's just that the BPAY® trade mark is a…
zhoutong on HN