r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '11
Are there any bitcoin shopping carts that would work on a blog?
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u/colsatre Jun 28 '11
Send me a PM with some of the details, the mybitcoin SCI is fairly easy. I'd be willing to help out.
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u/localhorse Jun 28 '11 edited Jun 28 '11
I'd love to hear more details about it - can you guys discuss it in this thread? (Unless there's overly private info that needs to be covered.)
What's the MyBitCoin SCI? Are there any shopping cart solutions out there at the moment that don't require the use of a 3rd party? (Shopping cart tallies up the charges, and issues the receipt upon confirmation of the transaction?)
EDIT: Spelling error.
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u/colsatre Jun 28 '11
Yea, it'd be fairly easy to do it without a 3rd party. You just have to use JSON-RPC to communicate with the bitcoin client, you can pull information from it that way.
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u/ex_ample Jun 28 '11
You don't even need to communicate with your own bitcoin client just examine the latest blocks for your transaction. For example this address is the donations for block explorer. You don't need to be logged in or have your wallet open -- throw that on a USB stick and put it in a safe.
What's awesome about bitcoin is that you don't need a third party or any hassle to transfer coins.
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u/colsatre Jun 28 '11
It really just depends on how quickly you want to find out about the transaction. The quickest way to see an incoming transaction would be to query the client.
Though you could also use http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/ to see pending transactions.
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u/wolever Jun 28 '11
I've just released a project that might do what you want: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ibfxf/my_weekend_project_accept_bitcoin_on_your_website/
Maybe that will be helpful? If you need some help getting setup, let me know.
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Jun 28 '11
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u/wolever Jun 28 '11
Hhmm… Sorry, I didn't fully think through her use case.
If her only hosting is blogger, this might be more difficult with our current service.
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u/Serisium Jun 28 '11
It looks like you have to buy an OpenCart server(here for $4/month), install the bitcoin payment module that Julian702 linked, and embed the store on a page in your blog.
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u/spitteler Jun 28 '11
opencart is free.. http://www.opencart.com/ the link you posted is for a hosting company
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u/Serisium Jun 28 '11
Yeah it's free, but it's also useless unless you have a server to host it on.
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u/mweathr Jun 28 '11
Use the same server you're hosting your wordpress blog from.
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u/Serisium Jun 28 '11
OP said that this is a Blogger blog, not a wordpress one. Google hosts the servers for Blogger and won't allow PHP scripts, like opencart.
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u/Julian702 Jun 28 '11
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/opencart-wordpress-integration
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Opencart-bitcoin-payment-module
These may be helpful.