Paxful Tutorial: How to Use and Customize Your Bitcoin Kiosk Widget Dear Paxful Members, In recent news, we went over our new feature that allows members to create and host their own Bitcoin Kiosk. This can be used to earn from every sale that is made through your custom Kiosk. You can place this Widget on Facebook, Twitter, blog, link it within your email list, or post it on your Website and any other online place that can host this digital widget. In this article, we will be going through the entire process so that you can better understand how it all works and how to take advantage of this amazing opportunity. 1. Become an Affiliate – NEW USERS Simply  register yourself as an affiliate . All you need to do this is an email address. If you are already a member you will see that the button will display “customize your affiliate link”, otherwise you will see “become an affiliate today”. 2. Enter Your Details For new users, once you click on the button, ...

Vendors upgrade! Introducing the new Vendor Dashboard ..Selling bitcoin can be very profitable. Paxful has just introduced a specialized dashboard just for vendors. It is loaded with reports and analytics that our vendors have been requesting. We listen to our vendors here at Paxful because a marketplace is nothing without the people who sell there. Vendors are half of the peers in the P2P equation that is the Paxful marketplace. The vendors take most of the risk as bitcoin cannot be reversed should the fiat transfer they were paid with be charged-back by a scammer. The more tools and information we can give vendors the better off everyone is and the lower prices buyers will get as vendors will not have to mark up prices to offset risks. In the future we will be working hard to create a more responsive feedback loop between us and the vendors who make the market. Responsiveness and good service will be given priority over price and the whole market should i...

Paxful Virtual Bitcoin Kiosk:  Purchase Bitcoins Instantly From Anywhere Earn Bitcoins While Becoming a Bitcoin Evangelist Bitcoin is a confusing topic for most people. There are many methods and paths to consider when trying to understand how it works, let alone how to purchase a bitcoin. At  Paxful  we have made a great effort finding a way to streamline the entire process for our users and anybody in the world who is looking to participate and empower themselves with the freedom offered through a decentralized currency accessible to anyone with an internet connection. We noticed that most of the existing services have been tailored for individuals who have access to banking systems, though when it came to purchasing bitcoins through other means – such as gift cards, debit cards, cash deposits etc – the options were somewhat limited. We listened to each and every complaint, suggestions and compliment, but it was the difficulty that the average person ha...

Closing the Circle   Paxful   0 Comments The dream is to see Bitcoin mainstream. We all know that retail adoption is a big part of that. The fully realized achievement of this dream is the single greatest opportunity humanity has ever had. It is so big and so far beyond just moving money around easier that one can barely get a handle on it. The best name I could give it is “Closing the Circle”. My journey began with a question. Speaking to merchants around the world about Bitcoin has taught me alot but I learned the most from the one question I couldn’t answer. A small boy on a self sufficient farm in the heart of Sudan asked me, quite plainly. “What is money?” I explained how currency was traded and what it let us do but he was looking for something even deeper. He wanted to know what the value behind it really was. I kept fumbling around my words until I realized that I didn’t have an answer. Coming back to New York I realized that every merchant I spoke to ...

Making Bitcoin Stick on the street. The Living Map   Paxful   0 Comments Spending the past eight months getting New York City merchants to try accepting bitcoins has taught me a few things. Merchants don’t care about bitcoin or credit cards, they just  want more customers . We as a community need to  work together to support the merchants  supporting us. Feedback is essential  to growing any system, be it a video game character or an economy. We all know that a big part of making bitcoin mainstream is retail adoption. When you can buy a hot dog, groceries and do your laundry with bitcoin then we know we have arrived. Retail adoption is where bitcoin has seen it’s slowest adoption. We have a major weakness here and we all need to begin building the bridges and the tools to fix it. The Tools we Have The bitcoin community has really stepped up and built some awesome tools for us. The current maps and directories have done an excellen...

Making Bitcoin Simple   Paxful   0 Comments While in NYC last week at a Bitcoin developer’s meeting I met two interesting guys behind a new payment network called Easybitz, that allows merchants to be set up with bitcoin without even needing internet. A true Bitcoin innovation. In addition to getting a sneak-peek of their impressive mobile merchant app, I got to interview the creators, Ray Yusuf and Artur Schaback. What is Easybitz and how was it formed? EasyBitz is a payment network powered by crypto-currency. It began on the New Year of 2014 when Ray, a crypto fanatic, tried to explain bitcoin to a friend who ran a shop. Three hours later it became clear to me that for Bitcoin to work on the street a vastly different approach was necessary. I built a 0 click system, using preprinted paper wallets, to allow even the crustiest non techie NYC shopkeeper to get bitcoin. Made a video about it just for crypto geeks and somehow the media got ahold ...