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An example that, even if you get a business side right, if you get shitty programmers, things won't fly.
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| tylercrumpton | I commented with this on the Reddit post, but I'll put it here as well. From my preliminary research here is what I see has happened: When you add a "Buy with Bitcoin" button from Coinbase to your website (as a merchant), it allows the user to click the button to open a Coinbase page/popup to allow you to pay for an item, donate, etc. This button already displays your name, email, and address. When the googlebot comes crawling around your site, it finds the button, follows the link, and indexes the transaction page. It does not appear that transactions themselves (an individual purchase) are indexed, nor do I see anyway that would be possible without a major mix-up on Coinbase's side. The only thing that google has cached is essentially a list of "Buy With Bitcoin" buttons. Feel free to correct me if I missed something here, but I just wanted to help prevent the FUD of "OMG COINBASE ARE LIKE GOOGLE-POSTING MY PURCHASES". | |
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| brian_armstrong | Coinbase CEO here. Just updated with a blog post: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/47198421272/data-on-public-merchant-pages These are merchant checkout pages. Your information is not going to be shown on one of these pages unless you created a "buy now" button, donate button, or checkout page and posted a public link to it somewhere as a merchant. Order pages are designed to be public so customers can reach them, but we messed up by making them publicly indexable and including merchant contact info there without being more explicit. The email in particular should not have been included. More details in the blog post. Very sorry for the trouble on this! | |
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| lukestokes | Coinbase CEO here. What we're looking at is a list of merchant checkout pages. It is the information merchants fill out on this page: http://cl.ly/image/2P2s2a0j002e Or https://coinbase.com/merchant_settings Your information is not going to be shown on one of these pages unless you created a "buy now"/donate button or checkout page and posted a public link to it somewhere. Order pages are designed to be public so customers can reach them, although we should have taken more care to not make them easily indexible by Google. The email in particular, although we encoded using hex encoding to make it more difficult to scrape, should not be shown on that page. We will take a look today at some ways to get it removed from the Google cache, and avoid having these pages indexed. We will post a public response on our blog shortly. Sorry for the scare!
Thank you for the update, Brian. I'm glad to see CEO's here in the forums. Right now, in the just-out-of-toddler stages of Bitcoin, this forum, the IRC channel and the Subreddit are the lifeblood of the system. Quick, honest communication is critical to keep things flowing. | http://www.foxycart.com: Helping developers create flexible, powerful, custom ecommerce in less time, while equipping merchants with the fastest checkout flow available to their customers. 50+ payment gateways, including Bitpay. |
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