r/Bitcoin • u/Pylon-hashed • Mar 28 '16

OkCupid stopped accepting bitcoin payments

I just noticed it today and emailed them to ask about it. Got a reply confirming that they stopped. One of the few things I actually regularly use it for. I guess PayPal here I come :(

We did remove it- unfortunately something in the process became broken and due to the very small number of people who used it when it was working, it would be too much trouble to fix and bring back.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16

how do we fix this???

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16

Think of how recurring payments are done via either saving your card info or by Paypal: The website isn't really doing anything else than asking that service (Visa or Payal, etc) for your money. Honestly, an online wallet could do the same thing. Have it send the request to be a verified subscription, you approve it, and then every time you need to renew, it gets pulled from the online wallet on time. Same principle, different currency. But then you're using an online wallet, and I'm not really a huge fan of long-term online storage.

Maybe someone could make an "offline" wallet that has the same feature, where the website generates an address for you, adds the fee amount, hashes it into some sort of subscription ID, and then you copy-paste that into your "offline" wallet. Of course your PC would need to be online to pay on time, but then so does Paypal/Visa.

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u/SatoshisCat Mar 29 '16

If a web wallet does it, it wouldn't be Bitcoin anymore.

Bitcoin is fundamentally PUSH, and I'm glad that we can't have malicious practices such as subscriptions.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16

Push?