Bitpay wants to scan my face \ stacker news ~privacy

627 sats \ 13 comments \ @leo 15 Jul privacy

I needed to pay for something today and opted to pay with Bitcoin, as I always do. The provider I'm using subscribes to Bitpay, and to complete the payment, I was first asked to log in and create an account, then verify it with some kind of "biometric scan"

No thank you

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64 sats \ 0 replies \ @MiddleWay 16 Jul

straight to IRS

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ContraMundum 16 Jul

Sounds like a terrible idea!!

108 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 16 Jul

Yikes, avoid at all cost. You do not want this floating around.

As we know, all this stuff is susceptible to hacks - honeypots.

113 sats \ 4 replies \ @clr 16 Jul

Don't use Bitpay. That's worse than paying with fiat.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @leo OP 16 Jul

Before this upgrade, paying with Bitpay was definitely preferable over Fiat. Much higher success rate of the payment succeeding, for example

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @clr 16 Jul

I wouldn't call it an "upgrade" 😅. It used to work like bitcoin is supposed to work, but they had to screw it up.

In a way, all these hypercompliant losers that are worried that people might be "laundering" money with $10 payments are doing us a favor in the long term. Let's use bitcoin as intended: P2P, without intermediaries.

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 16 Jul

Bitpay is such an atrocious experience it feels like a false flag attack on bitcoin.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 16 Jul

Bingo

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 16 Jul

Yeah, I was trying to find out some info on some old exchanges I used some time ago. All of them wanted to reverify, jump through hoops and update numbers address etc.

Forget it!

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Jul

Send to that merchant the BTCPay documentary :)

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 16 Jul

Don't use it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul

Do you use one for your apple phone? If you have done it oncealready, its already in they system.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 16 Jul

Bitpay is a conventional payment processor