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== Summary ==
The logo for Bitcoin Evolution, a bitcoin sales tracking service (http://bitcoinevolution.com)
== Licensing ==
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2011-10-15T04:02:35Z

Regulus: The logo for Bitcoin Evolution, a bitcoin sales tracking service (http://bitcoinevolution.com)

== Summary ==
The logo for Bitcoin Evolution, a bitcoin sales tracking service (http://bitcoinevolution.com)
== Licensing ==
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Merchant Howto

2011-10-15T03:59:36Z

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Accepting Bitcoins is easy, and there are several ways to do it.

==Manually==
# Download a bitcoin client
# When a customer wants to buy something, send them a Bitcoin address where their payment should be sent.
#* You can do this by clicking "New.." next to your address in the Bitcoin client and sending that address to the customer.
# When payment comes in to that address, send the goods to your customer. Depending on the value of what you're selling, you may wish to wait until the payment shows Confirmed.
# To issue a refund, obtain from the customer the [[Address|bitcoin address]] where the refund payment should be sent. The refund address will likely be different from the address used when the customer sent payment, especially if an [[EWallet]] was used by the customer.

==Automated==
===Pre-generating Bitcoin addresses===
You can accept Bitcoins on your website without needing to use Bitcoin APIs or third party services if you pre-generate a large number of receiving Bitcoin addresses and store them in a database on your web server, and dispense them one-by-one to customers when they are ready to pay. This way, your web server never actually handles the bitcoins - it simply gives out addresses belonging to a wallet you maintain elsewhere. By using a unique address per order, you will always know which payment belongs to which order. [https://www.casascius.com Example of website using this method]

To pre-generate addresses, use a tool such as [[Pywallet]] (which can generate a wallet.dat file) or [[Bitcoin Address Utility]] (which can generate a CSV file). In both cases, you will be generating a list of [[Address|Bitcoin address]]es along with their corresponding [[private key]]s. Only the Bitcoin addresses (not the private keys) should be loaded on the web server.

If you are shipping goods manually, you can use the Bitcoin software to check for incoming payments, or alternately consider using [[Block Explorer]] or [[Abe]] to verify payment when you're about to ship. To make this easy, make your website provide you a full hyperlink that includes the proper receiving address: ht<nowiki>tp://www</nowiki>.blockexplorer.com/address/ADDRESSGOESHERE.

If you are delivering digital goods or services and want to be able to deliver instantly upon payment and/or confirmation, you can use a third-party service such as [[Bitcoin Notify]] to tell your website when a payment has been received. This sort of service requires no significant API implementation - they will simply make a POST to your website or send you an e-mail when a payment has been received on one of your addresses.

If you keep Bitcoins off your web server, this ensures your wallet cannot be stolen if your web server experiences a security intrusion. Your risk becomes limited to the possibility that a successful intruder could add his own addresses to your address pool and steal funds from a few incoming orders until you detect the problem, however, this is a relatively controllable risk.

===Using a third-party API===
You can use an existing [[:Category:Shopping Cart Interfaces|shopping cart interface]] or utilize the Bitcoin client's [[API tutorial (JSON-RPC)|JSON-RPC API]] to automatically accept payments.

Set up a system that:
# When a customer orders something on your website it records:
#* Bitcoin address that payment should be sent to
#* Order details (delivery address etc.)
#* Customer's refund address (optional - if you wish you can ask for this later, only in cases a refund is required)
#* Payment amount
# When payment arrives, checks that they have paid the correct amount or not, and informs you
#* You dispatch the goods to the customer and mark the order as fulfilled
#* If you cannot dispatch the goods you mark the order as denied and ask the customer for a refund address (unless you already have it from earlier) to send a refund.
# Forwards the funds to bitcoin address of your choice

==Common Errors==
It has been observed on occasion that a business funnels all its orders through the same Bitcoin address, and asks people to send some BTC, then send email describing the timing and the amount of the transaction to 'claim' it. This is '''not''' secure, since anyone can see the transaction details using a tool such as [[Block Explorer]], and then try to claim someone else's transaction as theirs.

Do not do this. Give each customer a unique Bitcoin address.

==Listing your business on the Bitcoin Trade page==

Anyone can add and update a listing on the [[Trade|trade]] page. Just register if you haven't and add to the appropriate category. If you'ld like assistance, perhaps someone in the [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#bitcoin-marketing #bitcoin-marketing] IRC channel would be willing to assist.

==See Also==
* [[In-store Transactions]]
* [[:Category:Shopping Cart Interfaces|Shopping Cart Interfaces]]
* [[Bitcoin Evolution]] handles sales tracking and order forms; requires Bitcoin client for actual payment
* [[Bitcoin PayFlow]] automates the process for accepting bitcoins
* [[BitcoinNotify]] merchants solution for accepting Bitcoins and updating BTC prices
* [[Converter|Bitcoin Javascript Converter]] displays a price in BTCs after converting from USDs.
* [[How to accept Bitcoin, for small businesses]]
* [[:Category:Marketing|Marketing]]
* [[URI Scheme]]
* [[Promotional graphics]], buttons and logos
* [[Bit-Pay.com]] Merchant solutions for Bitcoin
[[Category:ECommerce]]

Software

2011-07-07T00:31:50Z

Regulus: /* Bitcoin software */

List of Bitcoin-related software. See also [[:Category:Software|Category:Software]].

==Bitcoin clients==
Bitcoin clients:
*[[Original Bitcoin client|Bitcoin client]] - standard Bitcoin client, recommended for installation
*[[bitcoind]] - GUI-less version of the standard Bitcoin client, providing [[API reference (JSON-RPC)|JSON-RPC]] interface (see also -server option of the standard client)
Frontends to bitcoind:
*[[BitcoinApp]] - RPC client for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPodTouch)
*[[Bitcoiner]] - Java RPC client (Android)
*[[Bitcoin-js-remote]] - JavaScript RPC client, support for QR codes
*[[Python Bitcoinclient]] - Python RPC client
*[[Spesmilo]] - Python/PySide RPC client
*[[Bitcoin-python]] - Python API
*[[Java Bitcoin Client]] - Java API
*[[Wallet.Net]] - Windows (soon to be cross platform) Full Featured, secure RPC client
Alternative, experimental implementations:
*[[BitDroid]] - Java client
*[[Bitdollar]] - C++/Qt client, unstable beta version
*[[BitCoinJ]] - Java client by Google, early development stage
*[[Freecoin]] - C++ client, supports alternative currencies like [[Beertoken]]
*[[Pycoin]] - Python client
*[[QBitcoin]] - C++/Qt client, unfinished
Frontends to eWallet:
*[[BitPay]] - Android application

==Bitcoin Trade Data==
*[[Bitcoin Charts]] - Html website that has trading data for virtual all the bitcoin markets.
*[[Bitcoinity]] - Html Ajax website that shows a live feed of [[MtGox]], [[TradeHill]], and [[BitMarket]].
*[[MtGoxLive]] - Html website that shows a live fee of [[MtGox]] trade data in an innovative chart form. (Must Use Chrome)

==Bitcoin software==

Web interfaces for merchants:
*[[MyBitcoin]] - Buy Now button to insert on websites
*[[Bitcoin Evolution]] - Non wallet-based Buy Now button to insert into websites (handles sales tracking; client must be used for actual transaction)
*[[Btceconomy]] - a JavaScript widget listing items for sale
*[[Javascript Bitcoin Converter]] - currency conversion

Web apps (opensource):
*[[Bitcoin Central]] - currency exchange
*[[Bitcoin Poker Room]] - poker site

Browser extensions:
*[[Bitcoin Extension]] - check balance and send bitcoins (Chrome)
*[[Bitcoin Ticker]] - monitoring price (Chrome)
*[[Bitcoin Prices (extension)]] - monitoring price (Firefox)
*[[Bitcoin Tool]] - recognizes Bitcoin addresses on websites (Firefox, Chrome, IE)

PC apps:
*[[BTConvert]] - currency conversion
*[[Sierra Chart MtGox Bridge]] - real-time charting
*[[BitTicker]] - monitoring price (Mac OS X)
*[[ToyTrader]] - a command line trading tool for [[MtGox]]

Mobile apps:
*[[Bitcoin Alert]] - monitoring price (Android)
*[[BitcoinX]] - monitoring price (Android)
*[[BtcMobile]] - monitoring price and mining pool statistics (iPhone/iPad, Android)
*[[Miner Status]] - monitoring miner status (Android)
*[[SMS Bitcoins]] - transactions by SMS
*[[Bitcoin Wallet Balance]] - view your balance in real time on your android phone

Other device apps:
*[[Zen Cart Bitcoin Payment Module]] - a payment module that interacts with bitcoind for the Zen Cart eCommerce shopping chart

Operating systems:
*[[LinuxCoin]] - a lightweight Debian-based OS, with the Bitcoin client and GPU mining software

Mining apps:
*[[Poclbm]] - Python/OpenCL GPU miner ([[Poclbm-gui|GUI]])
*[[Poclbm-mod]] - more efficient version of [[Poclbm]] ([[Poclbm-mod-gui|GUI]])
*[[DiabloMiner]] - Java/OpenCL GPU miner ([[DiabloMiner.app|MAC OS X GUI]])
*[[RPC Miner]] - remote RPC miner ([[RPCminer.app|MAC OS X GUI]])
*[[Phoenix miner]] - miner
*[[Cpu Miner]] - miner
*[[Ufasoft miner]] - miner
*[[Pyminer]] - Python miner, reference implementation
*[[Remote miner]] - mining pool software
*[[Poold]] - mining pool software
*[[Open Source FGPA Bitcoin Miner]] - a miner that makes use of an FPGA Board

Utilities, libraries, and interfaces:
*[[Bitcointools]] - a set of Python tools accessing the transaction database and the wallet
*[[Finance::MtGox]] - a Perl module which interfaces with the Mt. Gox API
*[[BitcoinCrypto]] - a lightweight Bitcoin crypto library for Java/Android
*[[Bitcoin Dissector]] - a wireshark dissector for the bitcoin protocol

Lists of software:
*[[BitGit]] - list of Bitcoin-related opensource projects hosted at Git

Developer resources:
*[[:Category:Developer|Category:Developer]]
*[[:Category:Technical|Category:Technical]]
*[[Original Bitcoin client/API calls list]]
*[[API reference (JSON-RPC)]]

Other:
*[[Namecoin]] - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin technology
*[[Bitcoin Consultancy]] - an organization providing open source software and Bitcoin-related consulting
*[[Open Transactions]] - a financial crypto and digital cash software library, complementary to Bitcoin
*[[Moneychanger]] - Java-based GUI for [[Open Transactions]]
*[http://btcnames.org/ BTCnames] - a webbased aliasing service which allows to handle unlimited names for your BTC deposit hashes

Software

2011-07-07T00:24:33Z

Regulus: /* Bitcoin software */

List of Bitcoin-related software. See also [[:Category:Software|Category:Software]].

==Bitcoin clients==
Bitcoin clients:
*[[Original Bitcoin client|Bitcoin client]] - standard Bitcoin client, recommended for installation
*[[bitcoind]] - GUI-less version of the standard Bitcoin client, providing [[API reference (JSON-RPC)|JSON-RPC]] interface (see also -server option of the standard client)
Frontends to bitcoind:
*[[BitcoinApp]] - RPC client for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPodTouch)
*[[Bitcoiner]] - Java RPC client (Android)
*[[Bitcoin-js-remote]] - JavaScript RPC client, support for QR codes
*[[Python Bitcoinclient]] - Python RPC client
*[[Spesmilo]] - Python/PySide RPC client
*[[Bitcoin-python]] - Python API
*[[Java Bitcoin Client]] - Java API
*[[Wallet.Net]] - Windows (soon to be cross platform) Full Featured, secure RPC client
Alternative, experimental implementations:
*[[BitDroid]] - Java client
*[[Bitdollar]] - C++/Qt client, unstable beta version
*[[BitCoinJ]] - Java client by Google, early development stage
*[[Freecoin]] - C++ client, supports alternative currencies like [[Beertoken]]
*[[Pycoin]] - Python client
*[[QBitcoin]] - C++/Qt client, unfinished
Frontends to eWallet:
*[[BitPay]] - Android application

==Bitcoin Trade Data==
*[[Bitcoin Charts]] - Html website that has trading data for virtual all the bitcoin markets.
*[[Bitcoinity]] - Html Ajax website that shows a live feed of [[MtGox]], [[TradeHill]], and [[BitMarket]].
*[[MtGoxLive]] - Html website that shows a live fee of [[MtGox]] trade data in an innovative chart form. (Must Use Chrome)

==Bitcoin software==

Web interfaces for merchants:
*[[MyBitcoin]] - Buy Now button to insert on websites
*[[Bitcoin Evolution]] - Non wallet-based Buy Now button to insert on websites (handles sales tracking, client must be used for actual transaction)
*[[Btceconomy]] - a JavaScript widget listing items for sale
*[[Javascript Bitcoin Converter]] - currency conversion

Web apps (opensource):
*[[Bitcoin Central]] - currency exchange
*[[Bitcoin Poker Room]] - poker site

Browser extensions:
*[[Bitcoin Extension]] - check balance and send bitcoins (Chrome)
*[[Bitcoin Ticker]] - monitoring price (Chrome)
*[[Bitcoin Prices (extension)]] - monitoring price (Firefox)
*[[Bitcoin Tool]] - recognizes Bitcoin addresses on websites (Firefox, Chrome, IE)

PC apps:
*[[BTConvert]] - currency conversion
*[[Sierra Chart MtGox Bridge]] - real-time charting
*[[BitTicker]] - monitoring price (Mac OS X)
*[[ToyTrader]] - a command line trading tool for [[MtGox]]

Mobile apps:
*[[Bitcoin Alert]] - monitoring price (Android)
*[[BitcoinX]] - monitoring price (Android)
*[[BtcMobile]] - monitoring price and mining pool statistics (iPhone/iPad, Android)
*[[Miner Status]] - monitoring miner status (Android)
*[[SMS Bitcoins]] - transactions by SMS
*[[Bitcoin Wallet Balance]] - view your balance in real time on your android phone

Other device apps:
*[[Zen Cart Bitcoin Payment Module]] - a payment module that interacts with bitcoind for the Zen Cart eCommerce shopping chart

Operating systems:
*[[LinuxCoin]] - a lightweight Debian-based OS, with the Bitcoin client and GPU mining software

Mining apps:
*[[Poclbm]] - Python/OpenCL GPU miner ([[Poclbm-gui|GUI]])
*[[Poclbm-mod]] - more efficient version of [[Poclbm]] ([[Poclbm-mod-gui|GUI]])
*[[DiabloMiner]] - Java/OpenCL GPU miner ([[DiabloMiner.app|MAC OS X GUI]])
*[[RPC Miner]] - remote RPC miner ([[RPCminer.app|MAC OS X GUI]])
*[[Phoenix miner]] - miner
*[[Cpu Miner]] - miner
*[[Ufasoft miner]] - miner
*[[Pyminer]] - Python miner, reference implementation
*[[Remote miner]] - mining pool software
*[[Poold]] - mining pool software
*[[Open Source FGPA Bitcoin Miner]] - a miner that makes use of an FPGA Board

Utilities, libraries, and interfaces:
*[[Bitcointools]] - a set of Python tools accessing the transaction database and the wallet
*[[Finance::MtGox]] - a Perl module which interfaces with the Mt. Gox API
*[[BitcoinCrypto]] - a lightweight Bitcoin crypto library for Java/Android
*[[Bitcoin Dissector]] - a wireshark dissector for the bitcoin protocol

Lists of software:
*[[BitGit]] - list of Bitcoin-related opensource projects hosted at Git

Developer resources:
*[[:Category:Developer|Category:Developer]]
*[[:Category:Technical|Category:Technical]]
*[[Original Bitcoin client/API calls list]]
*[[API reference (JSON-RPC)]]

Other:
*[[Namecoin]] - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin technology
*[[Bitcoin Consultancy]] - an organization providing open source software and Bitcoin-related consulting
*[[Open Transactions]] - a financial crypto and digital cash software library, complementary to Bitcoin
*[[Moneychanger]] - Java-based GUI for [[Open Transactions]]
*[http://btcnames.org/ BTCnames] - a webbased aliasing service which allows to handle unlimited names for your BTC deposit hashes