So what kind of Bitcoin site are you starting?
 

I'm currently building a mainstream one.
Selling something that is wanted world wide, hard to get and almost impossible to find payment solutions for.
Nobody else is doing it. I will be the first.
I will get paid in Bitcoins with a 0.5% transaction fee and no risk of cb's. And once they are in your wallet they will just get worth more and more.

So how are you gonna get your coins?

how do/will you process the transactions?

Why would I want to start any site with a currency that I would guess less then .005% of the population has even ever heard of?

not to mention there is nothing stopping everyone from making their own version of bitcoins. if google decided to make one bitcoin would die pretty quick i'd imagine.

thx,

i found these

https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-for-ecommerce

a rough version for oscommerce

https://github.com/weex/oscommerce-bitcoin

it's a good question, i was wondering the same so i looked into why wordpress and reddit have announced they are accepting bitcoins::

Accepting bitcoin will allow the site to take payments from anywhere in the world, according to Reddit's blog.

The virtual currency is looking increasingly attractive to online merchants, who run the risk of incurring a "chargeback" by banks if someone fraudulently makes a purchase with someone else's credit card details. Due to its cryptographic verification system, bitcoins cannot be fraudulently spent, which relieves merchants of chargeback worries.

As with many Web-based services, payments for those features are dependent on credit card transactions and eBay's PayPal service. But WordPress wrote on its blog that PayPal doesn't serve more than 60 countries, and credit card companies have restrictions due to political, fraud, and other reasons.

"With Bitcoin we join a new digital economy that doesn't leave anyone behind, essentially making financial transactions open source -- something WordPress.com is behind 100 percent," WordPress said.

Every person that hits my site looking for a certain product will instantly know about Bitcoins and because they basically can not order my product anywhere else online i'm pretty confident they will have no problem getting a Bitcoin account. They will be happy they can actually pay.

It wouldn't make sense if i can use cc or paypay instead. Then there is no point offering Bitcoins. (edit: actually it makes a lot of sense to offer it as an alternative payment option, which i do on a paysite) You must've missed the part where i said i offer something that has no other payment options.

must be something illegal then.

what are you selling? :helpme

Nope. Legal.

these guys launched a discount electronics store that only accepts bitcoins

Company representatives claim that by not having to pay credit card fees, they will be able to keep prices 1 to 10 percent lower than the top competitors. And by doing so, they are hoping the company will be so successful that it eventually fails.

You see, profit is not the main goal of the project. Roger Ver, the founder of the site, launched it to serve as a high-level demonstration for companies like Amazon and NewEgg, a lesson in the benefits of Bitcoin. If any of these companies begin taking payments in Bitcoin, representatives at BitcoinStore say they will close shop in triumph.

"The point of the site is to show both consumers and business owners that using Bitcoin can drastically lower the cost of providing products," says Jon Holmquist, the head of marketing for BitcoinStore.

https://www.bitcoinstore.com/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_te...to_accept.html

Yup, i'm gonna tell it here so 50 other people are gonna do the same thing.

damn, frank you are fast,
if you really have some special products then people will buy it no matter what.
i dont recall the product/site but on one site they were only accepting certain virtual currency , and their partner site allowed paypal to their currency exchange, i had no other option , so i purchased their currency and then the product, it was virtual item, i guess.
i gotta learn the bitcoin thing.
i never trusted the bitcoins or any other virtual currency.

Its all about to change: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...undering-laws/

something is not right in this thread...

Take payments all over the world, no risk of chargbacks, 96% male demographic.

Noone will stop anyone from making their own version, people already have. Litecoin is one. Thing about Bitcoin is that it has the first mover advantage and has alot of infrastructure built around it.

Working on a e-shop for my comics (Zen Cart with OKPay module). If it works out I would be free from the ridiculous censorship by banksters and CC companies, def worth to invest some time and work. If not I have wasted a few days of work but at least learned a little bit about Zen Cart.

After its done post your site to http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/

Tell them you just started, you should get some sales.

Legal now but banned tomorrow?

How is it taxed?

Its NOT, how can it be?

Nope

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And there is one of many problems with it.

Can't tax it, can't control it, can't regulate it in any way.... have luck!

not unlike like the internet in 1990s and to some extent, 2013

I wouldent make a site selling anything with bitcoins, naw fuck this I edited it out .....

Sports betting exchange.

But the internet is not currency. Otherwise, it would already be under some sort of control and taxed, which they are slowly inching towards anyway. Sooner or later they will screw up the net.

The concept of bitcoin is great and there is money to be made. I'm personally just more comfortable putting my money into hard assets instead of cyber currency that doesn't even exist and is flipping the bird at all governments, banks, and global power players.

https://btcsportsbet.com/

Competition is always good though.

Aware of them and http://betsofbitco.in

This will be much better, more like Betfair.

Thank´s for the hint, will do so.

If you have some time and bitcoin would you help me to test my shop? Would send you paypal.

yes, how close are you to being done?

Still prefer the Euro here. Rock solid!

Almost done. Some gaps need to be filled and the text needs some proof-reading. The shop is here:
http://www.lynortis.com/lshop/

I will send you $5 (where should I send them?) and you can use the coupon code ikki23 for a $4 discount.

Tried the asylum magda checks in. I put in the coupon code and it brought my total to zero.

My fault, that was the wrong code. Please use bittest42

Exactly.. Currently their is no way to tax bitcoin transactions. One may try and comply with tax laws and charge a tax for these transactions but I doubt this would the case.

I'm trying to check out but all my bitcoins are on Coinbase and they are having some glitch. When I check out I'll let you know. Don't worry about the $5

Why should Bitcoin transactions be taxed? If somebody gives you cash or sends you paypal that transfers is not taxed also. You, as receiver of the money, pays the tax (or not).