Accept Bitcoins on your site
A friend(@wolever) and I spent the weekend hacking up a small web app which makes it easy for you to sell digital goods for Bitcoins. Once a customer has clicked the “buy” button, we take care of giving them a unique address, monitoring that address for transactions, then securely notifying your website once a minimum number of confirmations have been received. Oh, ya, and then we send you the Bitcoins :) The website is here: BitWillet: http://www.bitwillet.com and there is a demo on the front page. (full disclosure: BitWillet uses the Willet, http://dev.getwillet.com, platform, of which I…
Accept Bitcoins on your site launched on June 28, 2011 with 40 votes, #15 of 181 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.
In plain words
BitWillet is a web application that enables merchants to accept Bitcoin payments for digital goods. It automates the sales process by generating unique Bitcoin addresses for customers, monitoring transactions, and notifying the merchant's website once the required confirmations are received, then delivering the Bitcoin to the seller's account. The tool is designed for anyone looking to sell digital products using cryptocurrency.
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From the sources
In the maker’s words, at launch
A friend(@wolever) and I spent the weekend hacking up a small web app which makes it easy for you to sell digital goods for Bitcoins. Once a customer has clicked the “buy” button, we take care of giving them a unique address, monitoring that address for transactions, then securely notifying your website once a…
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Source: Show HN post ↗ · launch text quoted in part
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