Recently Bought a Ledger Nano X using Bitcoin...Bitpay is very very very Shit.

I posted this over in r/ledgerwallet too and am posting it here in case it gets taken down.

Merde. This is more of a rant, so don't take the hyperbole too seriously.

The only way to purchase a Ledger device using Bitcoin is through Bitpay.

They have a needlessly complicated payment method/setup. Usually when you make a Bitcoin payment you get a QR code to a Bitcoin address. With shitpay, you get a QR code to a Bitpay link.

apperntly you can open this link with a wallet which should in theory automatically set up the payment for you. But with a Trezor device this is not the case.

when opening a bitpay link with the Trezor wallet, nothing happens. no payment information is revealed, no bitcoin address is shown for sending a payment.

Thus I had no idea where to send the payment for my order when trying to pay on my Trezor.

So I had to rely on a third party bitpay url decoding website to unscramble the damnable url into an actual Bitcoin address.

I sent the payment to this address and my order was confirmed. So it worked...BUT

  1. I was putting myself at the mercy of a third party tool that I have no way of knowing if it's malicious (not a coder)

  2. The bitpay link not working in the Trezor wallet is either the fault of Trezor/Bitpay

  3. Personally I blame bitpay, since their url method is non-standard and fucking retarded

  4. Ledger, wtf are you thinking enabling bitpay, or is this by design to screw over Trezor users?

  5. I should not have been put in this situation in the first place

please consider supporting some other payment option other then bitpay in the future for Bitcoin payments. OR grow some balls and just accept Bitcoin directly.

/rant

edit: for whatever reason the thread over at /r/ledgerwallet and some of the new comments in this r/bitcoin thread are not being approved/are being shadow banned. I can see them in my inbox though, so here is a screenshot of a few rbitcoin comments that didn't make the cut https://imgur.com/i5cIiKt



Submitted October 27, 2019 at 09:14PM by Fiach_Dubh https://ift.tt/2NjgCkW

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