For the past 2 years or so, Bitcoin Cash has been lacking proper options for individuals & small businesses to easily accept Bitcoin Cash on the web. Bitcoin Cash is meant to be used; it’s meant to be spent. While the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem is still in its infancy, it’s more important than ever to make it easy for those who are supporting the project to use it no matter their level of technical ability.
Right now, most businesses either roll their own solutions or rely on 3rd party (multi-coin) processors. We need something that individuals and smaller Bitcoin Cash-focused businesses can use that’s as simple as a static QR code but much more powerful.
The Blockchain Ventures team (responsible for Coin Dance, Vanity Cash, the Bitcoin Cash Pulse Developer Newsletter, and several other initiatives) has been working on a new version of PayButton, originally released back in February 2019, to achieve this. This new release makes it much easier for those who want to contribute to the project to get involved, using modern software development processes and technologies.
We need to get Bitcoin Cash into the hands of as many people as possible. Making it dead simple to use is one of the key milestones we need to achieve to get us there. We still think that payments is the killer app that’s been overlooked by most cryptocurrency projects and it’s our goal to have PayButton play a key role in ensuring that Bitcoin Cash is the currency people think of first when they go to send money online.
Be sure to check out our Flipstarter campaign where we're looking to raise 245 BCH to help fund an additional 1600 project hours.
If you'd like to try it out for yourself or get involved with the project, here are a few useful links to get started:
https://paybutton.org (homepage, WIP)
https://paybutton.org/docs/ (documentation, WIP)
https://unpkg.com/@paybutton/paybutton/dist/paybutton.js (CDN)
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@paybutton/react (NPM, React)
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@paybutton/paybutton (NPM, Traditional)
https://flipstarter.paybutton.org/ (Project Flipstarter)
https://twitter.com/thepaybutton (Twitter)
https://t.me/paybutton (Telegram)