Quote from: Patatas on June 08, 2018, 01:34:13 PM

Quote from: WhalePanda on June 08, 2018, 11:09:32 AM

I've always used https://bitpaydecoder.org but just for bitcoin payments

lol Glad that it is working for you but for me it's a big NO! Why I can't I just pay with Visa or something rather wasting 30 minutes of my precious time over some tech bullshit I'm not familiar with?BitPay is the reason services wouldn't use bitcoin payment systems as they make things more complicated then it's suppose to be.

Ideally, BIP70 is actually meant to simplify things and make middleman attacks more difficult to pull off (as each BIP70 URL has an SSL certificate attached to it to make it easier to view who you are sending your coins to), but the problem is that there's lots of opposition towards it like from some wallets, including Blockchain.info and Samourai wallet, and people like you and me can't transact with Bitpay. According to Bitpay's blog here, the rationale that made them adopt BIP70 included actually the fact that people paid too little or too much, too late, or miner fees resulted in long confirmation times-

Quote from: BitPay Blog

For a while now, weve wanted to reduce or completely eliminate payment errors to BitPay invoices. Payment errors occur when someone pays too much, too little, too late, or their payment doesnt include a sufficient miner fee (resulting in a delay in confirmation). These are not isolated incidents. Before Payment Protocol, wallets or exchange accounts not suitable for spending (along with user error) created more than a thousand of these errors for BitPay purchasers every week.

Bitpay likely didn't mean anything bad with adopting this, as logically adopting BIP70 would help them become more efficient as a payment processor and possibly reduce staff costs as they'd need less people handling transaction errors, but for whatever reason many wallets still don't support it. It's just a shame those wallets don't support BIP70 URLs, because the regular Bitcoin user might not be as tech savvy as the people on these forums and a nonworking payment URL leaves a bad taste in a newbie's mouth.