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Quote from: Patatas on May 24, 2019, 03:33:32 PM

I wonder why isn't my country on that list? Every country forbidden from using BitPay are the luckiest countries ever. They deserve a much better service to handle their bitcoin payments and not a broken shitty application like BitPay.

but what other service are you talking about here? is there an alternative payment provider already existing on those mentioned countries?
sometimes you really have no choice using the BitPay service.

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I wonder why isn't my country on that list? Every country forbidden from using BitPay are the luckiest countries ever. They deserve a much better service to handle their bitcoin payments and not a broken shitty application like BitPay.

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The thing is, their main interest when using Bitpay is the bitcoins are converted into fiat and send to their bank... It may even be the only thing that interests them. Anything else they're not interested. Also regarding accounting, there is maybe less work to do, they don't have to report the trades, etc, you know, the usual boring papers.

Personally, I didn't know BTCpay but I am thinking about something. Someone can code the stuff to had API from exchanges, then when a sale is done the API send-trade-withdraw. Then he has his own BitPay alt

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Though it's unfortunate for users who pay for services/products through BitPay, I personally couldn't care less. It's so much of a hassle to use BitPay due to the fact that there's no wallet address displayed and you'd have to manually sort of convert the QR code yourself. Hopefully better BTC payment processors gets created.

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This sucks. True, bitcoin can't be controlled....but it sort of can, and this is one example of how.

I'm a very tech-illiterate guy, but I know what a VPN is and I've recently thought about using one in order to use services like ShapeShift, which doesn't let US residents use their service. I have a feeling this BitPay thing is not going to be the end of it, either.

Quote from: AB de Royse777 on May 24, 2019, 09:25:21 AM

By the way, I do not like to use BitPay. I feel like it's following paypal business model.

Like it or not, sometimes you have no choice.

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Here you have to consider BitPay more like a payment processor than something else. And of course, all the things that come with. I'm not so surprised.
Yes you need a bank account if you're a merchant and yes it can be seen as useless to forbid some countries while it's difficult to make a bank account, not in your name.
The same goes for Paypal while there are several countries blacklisted there too.

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Quote from: subSTRATA on May 24, 2019, 10:26:18 AM

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im assuming bitpay involves linking a bank account to use its services; that being said, it should be pretty difficult for the average user to bypass the service blocking bank account associated with those countries. if youre using it just as a wallet, which is what i assume is the extent of your use for it given your statement, you shouldnt really be limited too much with the use of a vpn.

You mean for the merchants? Not sure about it however once I have used Bitpay to pay for my hosting and I did not require anything. I just downloaded their wallet. Sent the required BTC I needed to pay and then when I got the invoice link from the service I was buying I paid them using the link of BitPay.

But honestly speaking I did not like it. I had to send BTC from my account to BitPay then from BitPay to the service provider which was a hassle any way.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on May 24, 2019, 09:23:22 AM

the people from the following countries:

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Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ecuador, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Nepal, and Vietnam.

Can no longer use BitPay.

there are things from the crypto world that are a very nasty joke and this is one of them:

this is on the bitpay site.

LocalBitcoins Imposes Restrictions on Iranian Accounts

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Major peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange LocalBitcoins.com has banned users living in Iran, according to their website as of today, May 24.

I wonder what the next countries will be?

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Quote from: AB de Royse777 on May 24, 2019, 09:25:21 AM

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on May 24, 2019, 09:23:22 AM

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If you're using a service that uses BitPay for accepting payments, you won't be able to do so anymore.

Use VPN. It's an old news I think. You can not open their wallet if you are from any of these country however there are always a way out :-P

As I said, use VPN :-)

By the way, I do not like to use BitPay. I feel like it's following paypal business model.

im assuming bitpay involves linking a bank account to use its services; that being said, it should be pretty difficult for the average user to bypass the service blocking bank account associated with those countries. if youre using it just as a wallet, which is what i assume is the extent of your use for it given your statement, you shouldnt really be limited too much with the use of a vpn.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on May 24, 2019, 09:23:22 AM

~snip~

If you're using a service that uses BitPay for accepting payments, you won't be able to do so anymore.

Use VPN. It's an old news I think. You can not open their wallet if you are from any of these country however there are always a way out :-P

As I said, use VPN :-)

By the way, I do not like to use BitPay. I feel like it's following paypal business model.

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We all know that banning bitcoin doesn't mean much as there is no mechanism to know who is using it, especially If it's being done peer to peer but it seems like BitPay took action and as of a few days back, the people from the following countries:

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Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ecuador, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Nepal, and Vietnam.

Can no longer use BitPay.

So, If you're using a service that uses BitPay for accepting payments (Newegg, Shipito, etc.), you won't be able to do so anymore.

As said below, using a VPN would be a workaround, however you should make sure that it's fine by the service you're using. For example, Shipito has your address and knows the country you're from, you don't want to deposit money and then have it forzen.

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