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Topic: BIPS, Payment Service Provider (PSP) for Merchants - page 5. (Read 75403 times)

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Bitcoin maniac ;)
I have full understanding for system breakdowns and it takes some time to get em online.
But I have to criticize BIPS for the lack of information, a small status update once in a while would be highly appreciated, I believe the homepage had one with the last 24 hours.
I have so far not read "Your coins are safe", am I the only one with this concern?  

+1

You not only one ! :/

Update: 19 November, 9:55pm — Merchant Processing restored. Buy / Sell restored.

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legendary
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One coin to rule them all
I have full understanding for system breakdowns and it takes some time to get em online.
But I have to criticize BIPS for the lack of information, a small status update once in a while would be highly appreciated, I believe the homepage had one with the last 24 hours.
I have so far not read "Your coins are safe", am I the only one with this concern? 
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Would also like an update.  This has been a very long outage during a period when I'm sure a lot of us would like to be able to access our coins.
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Bitcoin maniac ;)
Apparently the first assumption is that the DDoS attack initiated major hardware failure, and wiped out the file system on all the servers.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1qo6cj/bips_being_ddosed/

Status:
We are propagating new servers and restoring backup onto those now.
Current estimate for online status is within the hour. We are waiting on the blockchain to download for our bitcoind's

Our Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery Plan:

Our future contingency planning will include backing up the blockchain for better risk management like in this case, where it has catastrophic consequences that we are not able to deploy backup within minutes, but have to wait 5 - 9 hours for the blockchain to download. (we are at "blocks" : 269439)

Personally I am sorry for any inconvenience, this might cause.

Hey Kris, any updates? Smiley

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Apparently the first assumption is that the DDoS attack initiated major hardware failure, and wiped out the file system on all the servers.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1qo6cj/bips_being_ddosed/

Status:
We are propagating new servers and restoring backup onto those now.
Current estimate for online status is within the hour. We are waiting on the blockchain to download for our bitcoind's

Our Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery Plan:

Our future contingency planning will include backing up the blockchain for better risk management like in this case, where it has catastrophic consequences that we are not able to deploy backup within minutes, but have to wait 5 - 9 hours for the blockchain to download. (we are at "blocks" : 269439)

Personally I am sorry for any inconvenience, this might cause.

Hey Kris, any updates? Smiley
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Bitcoin maniac ;)
Yay! It's back up! :3  Smiley

Nope Sad just homepage
full member
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Yay! It's back up! :3  Smiley
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Still down. Sad
newbie
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Are you guys still down or are VPN-service IPs blocked due to stricter cloudflare settings?
legendary
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Current estimate for online status is within the hour

Hey Kris, it was 2 hours ago, any news when website will be back online?

Regards,
Lenny
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How many GBPS?
donator
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Apparently the first assumption is that the DDoS attack initiated major hardware failure, and wiped out the file system on all the servers.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1qo6cj/bips_being_ddosed/

Status:
We are propagating new servers and restoring backup onto those now.
Current estimate for online status is within the hour. We are waiting on the blockchain to download for our bitcoind's

Our Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery Plan:

Our future contingency planning will include backing up the blockchain for better risk management like in this case, where it has catastrophic consequences that we are not able to deploy backup within minutes, but have to wait 5 - 9 hours for the blockchain to download. (we are at "blocks" : 269439)

Personally I am sorry for any inconvenience, this might cause.
member
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Merit: 10
Any idea when you're gonna be back up?  I saw your Reddit post from three days ago...
newbie
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What's up with BIPS website?
donator
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Merit: 500
Being DDoS, I am on it, sorry for the inconvenience.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1qo6cj/bips_being_ddosed/
newbie
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Thanks for that Kris, thats spot on.
I also appreciate you adding the additional json custom code, saves me needing to come back and ask about that if i needed such info adding.
Sadly i doubt it'll be the last you'll hear from me on the subject, but i really appreciate you taking the time to point out what im missing.

Are you able to comment on the holding of USD on the account, without a bank account being on record? If we can take payments in btc, automatically converted to USD which held on the account for a short period of time, and then place a buy order to convert it to BTC when we're ready to transfer the funds, then this service would be perfect for what we need.
donator
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Code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_URL => 'https://bips.me/api/v1/invoice',
CURLOPT_USERPWD => 'apikey',
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => 'price=100¤cy=USD&item=TEST&custom=' . json_encode(array('order_id' => '1')),
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_BASIC));
$url = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
header('Location: ' . $url . '/iframe');
newbie
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It will fit in 640x260 with room to spare, but I think you are not showing the iframe version, the iframe version will only show when you append /iframe to the end of the Invoice URL received back from the Invoice API.

You will have to enable the timer in your BIPS merchant account. Simply select the check box called "Convert bitcoins and transfer to my bank account", this will enable the timer, so customers are required to pay within 15 minutes for BIPS to guarantee the rate for a merchant.

I've got the timer enabled, not quite how i'd have wanted it to be honest, i'm calculating the btc price based on its current value, so if i want $500 in BTC then i'd ask for 1.23btc, but in 10min it could be 2.34btc, and i asked for $500 in btc.
That said, if i accept the payment in USD, do you require a bank account on record, or can i hold currency then when im ready place a BTC buy order and transfer the BTC to another wallet? Bitpay dont give me that option, which is one of the main reasons im seeking an alternative. I've looked in the buy/sell area and im not entirely sure if ewallet means btc wallet, but being able to convert to fiat then back to BTC when im ready, is what im looking for.


The iframe issue, are you saying i need to use CURLOPT_URL => 'https://bips.me/api/v1/invoice/iframe', in order to enable it, as there doesnt appear to be any difference when i use that, theres still a 110px space at the top.

Essentially, what i have is this:
Code:
Code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_URL => 'https://bips.me/api/v1/invoice/iframe',
CURLOPT_USERPWD => 'apikey',
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => 'price=100¤cy=USD',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_BASIC));
header('Location: ' . curl_exec($ch));
curl_close($ch);

Infact, just viewing the invoice.php file, that takes me to your site and theres a great big empty space at the top. Looking at the code, theres 3x
in there, but i guess thats because im not doing what your suggesting, i just cant understand how else i'd do it from what you've said.
donator
Activity: 640
Merit: 500
It will fit in 640x260 with room to spare, but I think you are not showing the iframe version, the iframe version will only show when you append /iframe to the end of the Invoice URL received back from the Invoice API.

You will have to enable the timer in your BIPS merchant account. Simply select the check box called "Convert bitcoins and transfer to my bank account", this will enable the timer, so customers are required to pay within 15 minutes for BIPS to guarantee the rate for a merchant.
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