... and looks like we have managed to become the number one Bitcoin music store in the world.

Some Reddit love.

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Hi,


I just did major facelift for the site. Here are some information (also available in the blog

After operating half a year Liberty Music Store has reached the one hundred albums milestone. Currently there are 3-5 purchases per week, so it is not exactly money making machine for anybody yet. However at least there now exists  a way for Bitcoin enthusiastics to buy good music!

Recent changes

I have been working with block.io team to make Bitcoin payments as fluent as possible. After resolving some issues here and there finally I can trust the infrastructure and artists get paid in 24 hours after somebody has purchased any music.

The site has now separate buy section where one can browse music by a genre.

News letter and blog are available to follow the development of things.

Next steps

Feature-wise the site will probably receive "pay what you want" option, as many people have been requesting this. But please note that I am working on this for fun, on my free time, so I cannot really promise any hard deadlines when things go out. You are still free to poke me by email any day

People also have been asking to be able to upload images for each song. This will probably follow soon.

There is now introductory blog post and updated tutorial available:

https://opensourcehacker.com/2015/03/09/introducing-cryptoassets-core-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency-framework-for-python/

I'd like to announce new easy programming library for creating your own Bitcoin applications.

cryptoassets.core is a Python framework for building Bitcoin, other cryptocurrency (altcoin) and cryptoassets services. Use cases include eCommerce, exhanges, wallets and payments.

Build a fully-working Bitcoin (or any altcoin) wallet application with only 150 lines of code.

See project homepage. See documentation.
See getting started with Bitcoin wallet terminal application tutorial.

Benefits

• Easy: Documented user-friendly APIs
• Extensible: Any cryptocurrency and cryptoassets support
• Safe: Secure and high data integrity
• Lock-in free: Vendor independent and platform agnostics
• Customizable: Override and tailor any part of the framework for your specific needs
• Open source - MIT licensed
• Works with any database
• Python is well-establish programming language in financial and Bitcoin industry
• Django web application compatible

Supported cryptocurrencies and assets

• Bitcoin
• Dogecoin
• Applebyte
• Litecoin

Supported daemons and wallet services

• bitcoind and bitcoind-compatible altcoins (Dogecoin, Litecoin, etc.)
• block.io (Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Litecoin)
• blockchain.info (Bitcoin)

This work is based some of my earlier projects here. All feedback welcome.
   

There are malicious Tor exit nodes targeting Bitcoin services. They will do man-in-the-middle HTTPS attack against your Bitcoin website. This is only successful if you accept the invalid security certificates of the website. The web browser gives a big red warning "DON'T GO TO THIS SITE THE CERTIFICATE DOESN'T MATCH". If the user clicks yes and then the secure connection is compromised and the Tor exit node can steal your Bitcoins.

You can read more about the attacks against the Tor users here.

Thus, Tor should not be recommended for the users who are not technically-sawy enough to avoid risks like this.

Other potential risks and compromises and how to protect yourself against them

Please welcome the latest band going Bitcoin: B.U.N.K.S (hiphop):

http://bunksperience.com/bunks-now-accept-bitcoin-for-music-downloads/

 

Short answer: When it makes any sense.

Long answer: When Bitcoin price is stable enough so that consumers can understand and cope with its value long term. E.g. 5-10 years time range. It doesn't work if you need to recheck value every day.

Wasn't Bitstamp in process to change their banking partner? Did they already switch to some German bank?

Posted a big update on Liberty Music Store last night.

• The site has now theme designed by a professional. This makes it one of the rare Bitcoin sites which does not look like dog poop.
• New artists have signed up. I updated the first message in the thread for the list.

The project got interviewed by CryptoCoinNews.

Also some new artists have joined. Looks like this might become interesting in long term

There are numerious ways: PayPal, MoneyPak, cash, etc.

Buy bitcoins online in United States

Buying bitcoins is 100% safe with escrow like one on LocalBitcoins. Selling Bitcoins is more risky as you accepting bank transfers from unknown parties in internet.

All online downloadable digital goods: music, movies, books, games.

The transaction is small and digital, so there shouldn't be much room for disputes and frauds. Downloads are irreversible, too.

E.g. http://libertymusicstore.net/

http://humblebundle.com/

Disclaimer: I am the author of the Libery Music Store project above

Apparently credit card fraud is quite common in indie / freemium games - causes problems to small indie game developers. Most likely cardster try out to see if the credit card is working or not.
(Though this answer is more like "things that should be used on sell bitcoin only")

Care to share which site? 

Linux developers deal with a shared code, but not shared data (whatever is inside the computers running Linux).

Bitcoin developers deal with shared code and shared data (blockchain). You can modify and extend Bitcoind as much as you want, but other Bitcoind nodes would reject your custom transactions. Thus, room for experimenting development ideas easily is smaller as you are still bound to global Bitcoin protocol rules.

And then altcoins were born.

To block bitcoin node traffic the ISPs would need to filter out all traffic doing something called deep packet inspection for all international traffic. As far as I know only China, with its Great Firewall, and some others dictature-led countries are capable of doing it.  I am quite sure India doesn't have this capability. They, most likely, can only blacklist individual IP addresses and domain names.

This is my weekend hacking project.

Liberty Music Store - Sell songs on your homepage, receive Bitcoin

If you know any musicians who are into Bitcoin, Liberty Music Store is the place for them.

I hope to bring the barrier lower for musicians to do indie sales. This should also encourage Bitcoin purchases. The tradional payment methods have hard time to compete in this use case as the purchase process is dead simple with Bitcoin: click song, click the payment link, it opens your wallet and then you accept the purchase. The download stars automatically after this. No sign ups. No hassling with credit card numbers.

The process is simple is simple for the artists too. Upload a ZIP file containing your songs. Name your price. Then you'll receive a HTML code you can put on your site.

The project is 100% transparent, 100% open source, available on Github.

Follow in Twitter

EDIT: artist update

We have already six brave band going into Bitcoin! If you find their music interest please support their work by buying the album.



https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/tatiana.jpg

Tatiana Moroz - Country

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/yesconnie.jpg

YESConnie - rap

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/hollowcircle.jpg

The Hollow Circle - Rock

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/codeunknown.jpg

Code Unknown - Metal (Facebook store)

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/subatomica.jpg

Subatomatica - Electronica (Facebook store)

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/dharmafire.jpg

The Dharma Fire - Phychedelic




I'll throw a Bitcoin party when ten bands have signed up and opened their store. Everybody welcome  

Peace,
Mikko

Hi,

Some updates. bitcoinprices.js now supports pricing your products in USD, EUR and other fiat and then converting those to BTC in-fly. This makes it dead simple to drop to any eCommerce site which wants show prices in Bitcoin or converted to your native currency.

Here is a Drupal + UberCart store Time For Plan B selling Bitcoin stuff: http://timeforplanb.org/store (click Show Prices in BTC). Only Bitcoin payment is available. They use BitPay for the checkouts.

Drupal is a popular PHP-based content management system. UberCart is its eCommerce addon. Now bitcoinprices.js have been adapted for those.

I have also updated README for instructions for UberCart in integration:

https://github.com/miohtama/bitcoin-prices

Screenshot

http://i.imgur.com/ikb3rVa.png

I don't have anything specifically Bitcoin related, but you can find my blog at http://opensourcehacker.com

There is now a sister project, bitcoinaddress.js.

More about it in thread here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=447572.msg4919484#msg4919484