Well, not necessarily yourself, but through an entity that would not gossip the pending transaction. If it paid well any pool or mining farm could include it. A high standard transaction fee would not help.
Are you really letting people pay with PayPal to send BitCoins to an arbitrary address?
If it's just 1 satoshi for $3 you might be fine (if PayPal doesn't notice), but don't even think of doing that with a more reasonable ratio, since you'll get raped by people cashing out stolen paypal or credit cards using it.
In general, I don't see why you are putting the hash in the address, rather than putting it in a comment in the transaction script, and sending BitCoin back to yourself (or perhaps doing a 0-ouput fee-only transaction, but not sure if that's accepted by clients).
I suppose the more anonymous option would be to 'buy' mining or use something like localbitcoins? You could still get caught, of course, but it'd be a lot more difficult.
More easily, but less safely. Using a mixer or CoinJoin or similar for normal, legal payments allows you to pay people without revealing how much Bitcoin you own.
Just placed a bid on a project. Didn't realize till after placing it that the message would be publicly accessible. There's no mention of this on the bid page nor is there any way to edit the message after the fact. Both of these sound like issues that should be addressed.
Other than that I like the idea. Although, the only reason I can think of why a developer would use btcworkers rather than your USD counterparts would be for anonymity (read: avoid paying income tax). What are the other benefits to being paid in bitcoins?
Can I pay with bitcoin? if not then why? I currently use vultr and it spins up/down instances when my program needs it an automatically pay them with bitcoin
Reputation-managing services will pop up later. For now do not give big amounts to anyone you do not know. At least, with Bitcoin (unlike credit cards) you can pay without fear that the rest of the money can be stolen.
But do you need to receive and send them at all? Couldn't you just act as a coordinator, sending the site's BTC address to the client so that they can pay them directly?
The problem with the Bitcoin approach is not so much the money, but the time and knowledge needed to set up a wallet, buy BTCs and then perform the payment. And as long as it costs money it would still hopefully stop trolls.
The only provider I know is Fortumo[1], but I'm sure there are others. It seems pretty easy to integrate with a website[2] and as far as I know there is no way for the client to issue a chargeback.
Miners also do not need to be part of the p2p network. A mining pool for example will distribute the block for you and send you the bitcoins. There's also a tool to send transactions [1] so you do not even have to be part of the network to send/receive transactions.
[1] https://insight.bitpay.com/tx/send - These still require your signing key, so you can use Bitcoin without ever being on the network. It just requires you to trust all the block explorers that you have actually received payment.
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