Hello Linode team,

Please add support for Paypal payment option for your customers with a good reputation or for those ones who are with you for more than X years.

I guess numerous of your customers will benefits from this option!

Thanks!

I would much rather have Bitcoin as a payment option. Can we get bitcoin?

< HoopyCat> i'm not logged into the forums, but i trust someone'll mention that paypal's TOS forbids its use to pay for stuff that is permitted by linode's TOS
< HoopyCat> and thus, linode cannot accept paypal without violating paypal's TOS

Paypal are dodgy as hell. They have been blocking accounts and keeping the money in them for years now. Many businesses and charities have had their money taken by paypal.

+1 for BitCoin payments but not anonymous ones as that will only lead to the wrong kind of people turning up.

If it were true, the DOJ would have got on PayPal by now. Bitcoin is a different story, it's a pyramid scheme that is housed in foreign countries.

For reference: viewtopic.php?t=1224

What Paypal does is almost entirely legal under their terms and conditions. That doesn't make them a trustworthy company to do any kind of business with.

BitCoin is peer2peer and full data is distributed to every single node, it's 'housed' everywhere. You could call it a pyramid scheme, but then you could call gold, land, US dollars, shares, shiny pebbles, and every other limited resource pyramid schemes too.

If some kind of cheap or free near-instant payment system gets rid of parasitic middle men like western union and paypal that has to be a good thing.

Regardless of what people think about Bitcoin -I know that even here (where most people are tech-savvy) it is a bit controversial whether bitcoin has a long term future,- it doesn't matter for the risk Linode takes. Payment providers like BitPay and Coinbase (and coinbase supports recurring payments) allow you to exchange it to fiat straight away. That way we, the customers, can pay in the currency we prefer - and Linode can receive in the currency they prefer. Both parties are happy, + there's less fee (creditcard fee) overhead.

Google "bitcoin pyramid scheme".

I guess small unmarked bills in an envelope is out as well....

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I believe Linode would legally have to accept US notes in an envelope for their hourly offering as it's invoiced after the debt has been created.

'United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes and dues.'
—31 U.S.C. § 5103

However they would not need to accept US notes in an envelope for anything billed in advance because no debt would have been incurred.

So Jelly Donuts are still a no eh?

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Either provide enough details for people to help, or sit back and listen to the crickets chirp.
Security thru obscurity is a myth - and really really annoying.

Next time you are in St. Louis you might want to pop in here for a Gooey Butter Donut and a coffee:

http://www.justgoodnews.biz/2014/01/27/missouri-good-news/strange-donut-banks-bitcoin-maplewood/

St. Louis is in Europe now?

No, No, No. Europe is in St. Louis, between Martin Luther King Drive and Washington Ave.

http://www.europenightclub.com/

They don't take Paypal. Or BitCoins.