Hope all is well with you and yours. I'm writing this as a proposal to our community to aid in getting STEEM and SBD (Steem Backed Dollar) accepted on Coinpayments.net to make it easier for developers and site owners to accept STEEM/SBD. I believe in order for STEEM / SBD to survive long term we need to as a community develop goods and services to spend our hard earned STEEM & Steem Backed Dollars!
What is Coinpayments.net?
Coinpayments is a well known and established payment gateway provider based out of the west coast Canada. They boast an extremely positive track record for providing a fast, easy and secure 3rd party payment provider for those without enough technical knowledge to host their own wallets or develop their own crypto payment gateways. If an aspiring entrepreneur wanted to sell good or services for STEEM and/or Steem Backed Dollars (SBD) without having to go through the hassle of hosting their own wallet and coding everything, this is certainly a viable option.
How Can The STEEM Community Benefit From This?
The first and foremost way that getting both STEEM and SBD on Coinpayments.net would help our community is that currently there is no user friendly ("easy") way to accept these curriencies on your website. It takes a fair amount of technical knowledge, coding and a firm understanding in cryptocurrency currently if you'd like to accept STEEM / SBD on your site.
Secondly Coinpayments offers an incredibly easy to use API, a Wordpress/WooCommerce plugin to allow for rapid acceptance of STEEM/ SBD on hundreds of thousands of web stores using WP and as an added bonus the site also offers an easy to use point of sale terminal which merchants both in the real world and on the web will be able to use to trade STEEM/SBD for their goods and services.
How Much is This Going to Cost?
People HATE spending money out of their own pockets on stuff. This is where the beauty of STEEM / SBD comes into play with it's innovative voting reward system powered by the users of the network. It's up to all of us as Steemit users to help support the growth, adoption and evolution of STEEM in the ways that we can. Luckily on Steemit you can show monetary support for FREE simply by upvoting this proposal.
The Paid Way (Fast, Guaranteed, Easy, Possibly FREE)
It IS a possibility to buy our way onto the Coinpayments.net platform for $700 USD per added currency. The amount to have both STEEM and SBD added to the Coinpayments payment gateway totals $1400 USD. While I'm currently unable to pay for that entire $1400 USD listing fee myself I gladly pledge $100 USD worth of my own money (earned here) toward the cause as I believe it will truly help our STEEM community and network grow in value.
The Voting Way (Slow, Not Guaranteed, Charged Per Vote)
The passive and somewhat less efficient way we could go about trying to get Coinpayments.com is with their sites coin voting list that can be viewed at the following link: https://www.coinpayments.net/vote
Not only is this method NOT likely to get STEEM / SBD onto their payment gateway platform but it's highly likely that any Bitcoin used to boost the vote count will likely be wasted if we don't receive enough votes get to the top of the list and have our currencies added.
Even if you're not a web developer or online store manager this proposed addition of STEEM / SBD to the Coinpayments.net roster helps you as well, enabling the acceptance of our native STEEM network currency on millions of websites worldwide.
What If This Post Doesn't Fully Pay For Wallet Hosting?
No Problem! The funds will be held until we're at the amount needed to get the STEEM and SBD currencies added to Coinpayments. In the event where enough is raised by this post to only get 1 of the currencies implemented I'm leaning towards having SBD (Steem Backed Dollars) added first as we have a far greater number of liquid SBD than STEEM at any point of time.
Feel free to toss a vote on this article as a show of your support for the ongoing growth and development of our community! Alternatively if you instead wish to send SBD / STEEM / BTC to help me with the fees incurred for getting the 2 currencies hosted on Coinpayments please let me know in the comments below.
If by some chance that this post makes over the $1400 SBD payout goal needed to fully fund this initiative I'll be using the remaining awarded SBD to get STEEM / SBD payments integrated into my own under development projects as well as launch an Online Shop catering to STEEM network users featuring all sorts of goods and services for the community.
STEEM User Support Pledges:
Confirmed Pledges:
@venuspcs - $30 USD pledged
@klye - $100 USD pledged
@berniesanders - $220USD pledged
@sigmajin - $220USD pledged
Steem User Votes - ~$830 USD pledged
About $960 of the $1400 needed has been acquired to pay Coinpayments.net fees for SBD/STEEM listing have been raised through community upvoting! WOW.
This post has raised nearly 70% of the funds needed!
Big Thanks to @berniesanders & @sigmajin for generously offering to cover the remaining amount to have both SBD and STEEM integrated soon on Coinpayments.net
Through the AMAZING response from the STEEM community so far we've raised enough funding through upvotes to get SBD (Steem Backed Dollar) Added to Coinpayments.net! I've sent them an email and await a reply. Extremely exciting to have thee community band together to get something done that will benefit all of us.
Great Work STEEM Network Users!
Thank You to All Who Voted and Supported.
Update: A few very generous STEEM users (@berniesanders & @sigmajin) have contacted me with intent on helping pay for any outstanding amount the reward from this post doesn't cover to get both SBD and STEEM listed on Coinpayments! If this post fails to achieve its $1400 SBD payout goal through community upvote funding they've agreed to split the remaining costs between themselves. Looks like they end up splitting the remaining cost of $440 to help get this payment gateway on board. Thank you personally to the both of you. :)
Thank you on behalf of the entire STEEM network for stepping up to support the cause. Near the end of 1st payout period I'll contact these users with the outstanding amounts and list them here on the confirmed pledge list above.
Keep Voting! We As A Community Can Achieve Anything!
TL;DR
Please Upvote!
Call to The STEEM Dev Team, Witnesses & Whales:
@dan / @dantheman / @ned / @riverhead / @wang / @laonie or Any other whales I've neglected to mention please have a look at this proposal, consider helping the community by upvoting this to acquire much needed integration into well known payment gateways that will allow the STEEM ecosystem to flourish into the future.
Update:
Does anyone have a link to a complete STEEM API list so I can get the Coinpayments.net developers working on implementing our SBD and STEEM? Would be greatly appreciated! Please comment below if you have such a list.
Where are whales when we desperatlly need them to upvote???????????????
Right? A few developer / whale votes and we're set basically to get Coinpayments on board!
Well looks like 4 of the top 10 whales have voted it up, and nearly to the SBD payout amount to fulfill the whole requirements at Coinpayments.net. Congrats!
You're doing great job and I like how you planing long term. I agree with you 100 %
We're about 61% of the way there. SBD payout on this post sits around $725 SBD at the moment.
does steem qualify as opensource? I know the software isn't full-on open license?.. only potential concern. cant hurt to try though
STEEM is infact up on github and open sourced. :)
interesting.. anyway im doing settlements tomorrow morning, so ill ship you some btc if theres anything left over, just lmk where. lets call it a 1btc pledge
Oh wow! That is very generous of you sir.
I've actually been contacted by a few people that were interested in paying the amount outstanding to get both SBD and STEEM listed. I'll let them know another user is also willing to chip and so everyone's cost out of pocket is lower. :)
My hope is that this receives enough votes from the community that no one has to fork out and of their own money in order to pay for this and we do it as a community.
We'll see what happens!
Thank you again for reaching out to ensure the goal was met.
<3 KLYE
Didn't they even open-source Steemit too?
Great idea @klye I am glad to see you having a positive impact on Steemit.
I am trying to do the same so I hope you don't mind #payitforward!
[Crowdfunding] Steem.Gifts and Steem.Market need Steemians help to become a reality!
Thanks sir. We need this badly if STEEM is to prosper and grow.
Upvoted because I like your Idea. Wish I could match your offer above, but I can't as you will see in my wallet. But I will match it the day I write that killer post! 😊
No worries norbu!
I'd thought about what we need as a community to help further spread the word and use of STEEM / SBD...
This is what I came up with. I honestly hope this post goes to +$3000 so I can go pay for the implementation and hosting of the STEEM wallet on their site.
Keep at it. I have faith you will make that killer post soon!
Why tho?
Steem's still spiralling downward...
Likely because it really doesn't have a use besides cashing out to BTC..
With this we can build web stores EASY, and give the currency more value
Yeah I guess you're right.
Just doubting the long term stability of a site that rewards people in a currency that drops in value every day... My account value has almost halved in the 3 weeks I haven't been writing...
Thinking far to short term and small scale bob. I like to think 1-10 years ahead in my plans.
If you make the tools needed available for a community and ecosystem to grow they will.
lol. Think and project success and you'll achieve it bob..
In 10 years time I may be a millionaire and one of the largest accounts on a multi-billion dollar social media platform.. Or maybe it's gone the way of myspace...
Either way STEEM kicks ass and has helped me get my life back together..!
So in 10 years time when $1 is worth 1c, it's gonna be able to support itself? ;)
What a negative way to look at a free market.
Most other currencies do the same after a big pump, in case you haven't noticed. That's why the day-to-day price should never be taken too serious since its what the community and project does and accomplishes that matter, the price adjusts afterwards usually or before big news.
That definitely needs more support
Seems it's picking up traction! I'm very optimistic we'll get both STEEM and SBD will listed soon on Coinpayments. :)
Looks like you've got enough here to get SBD on Coinpayments. Putting STEEM on there wouldn't make as much sense. Good initiative buddy.
Yeah it looks like it's going to be succesful! I know a few posts from other users had attempted this before but given the reach my posts seem to be having lately I decided to try and get this accomplished once and for all.
The primary is infact SBD and that will be added first in favour over STEEM. Although I imagine adding them both to coinpayments will have benefits (store owners selling directly for STEEM to power up perhaps?)
Thanks pfunk. I kept looking at what I could do to help our ecosystem out and this is what I came up with.
Good post!!!
Thanks. I figure someone needed to take this issue by the horns.
Great idea! Hope that this Works! :)
It will! I have faith in this community.
A good web site for currency exchange and application, there may be more applications in the future.
It will unlock doors to those inept in coding to accept SBD / STEEM on their websites!
I basically posted this days ago lmao funny how that works out.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptovpn/steem-merchant-api-on-coinpayments
Granted not as well but I'm glad its getting some coverage nice going klye.
Your post didn't even get the voting bar off the screen though. I probably spent an hour or two writing this whole thing and another 5 hours editing it. lol
I would also like to see SBD added, thanks for this!
I emailed them about an hour ago. Waiting for reply. :)
Sounds like a good idea to me. Love your post.
Good idea. Make it easier to "Steem on".
Actually it's an EXCELLENT idea. When the legacy economy crashes (not if, but when) then something needs to be available (besides barter) as a fail safe.
Agreed. With this we'll take on setting up storefronts for SBD / STEEM and stimulate the ecosystem
Well done buddy! i mean on everything. You have come so far :) by far my favorite blogger on here. Hands down!!! :D
I'm a blogger?! Crap.. I just showed up to draw a few things and now I got sucked in. XD
nice post
Thank you sir
Awesome Idea! It's cool that you can easily reach out to the Steemit community for help with this.
Here, have my up-vote. :]
I'm impressed by the community response to be honest.
When it's for the greater good though this community certainly can come together.
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Any news? I the meantime here is my support for your initiative! https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptojoy.com/i-need-steem-dollars-and-steem-payments-to-be-accepted-on-coinpayments-net-please-help-klye-to-get-api-and-rpc-documentation