Bitpay and the magical email confirmation

Thursday, 04 October, Year 4 d.Tr. | Author: Mircea Popescu

Sooo I check my mail, and I'm hit with :

bitpay-email-1

BitPay is some sort of Bitcoin payments processor, I think. Sure enough, the first email contains a confirm link and

If this is in your junk mail folder, make sure you add system@bitpay.com to your safe senders list.

Whereas the second assures me that

You can start using our shopping cart, or cart plugins, right away.

[...]

If you need any help, just contact us through the site.

Important communications regarding your order processing and account alerts will be sent from this email address to you.

I can appreciate Bitcoin businesses want more customers, and customers are put off by procedures and all that, sure. However opt-in means opt-in, BitPay! If you've bothered to implement it then bother to use it, neh ? Maybe that way you wouldn't have to ask the same customers to fish you out of the spam folder.

Category: Bitcoin
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5 Responses

  1. Well, BitPay is run by humans too. There is no such thing like intelligent system. There are only intelligent people.

  2. Mircea Popescu`s avatar
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    Mircea Popescu 
    Thursday, 4 October 2012

    What's that to do with anything ?

  3. Well, why does it have to do? If it doesn't then I'd say it's fine, you have a healthy way of thinking. Just checking...

  4. And by the way, sorry for my bad english, I'm not a fluent english speaker.

  5. More like 'you never spoke in your life' ftfy.

    >squirrel mail
    >2012
    Srsly

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