<story><title>BitPay and PayPal</title><url>http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/09/23/bitpay-and-paypal-an-unbeatable-payment-partnership.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trevordev</author><text>BitPay sponsored angel-hack Seattle that I participated in this summer. Their developer api was horrible and poorly documented wasting everyone time. I was in one of the few groups that got it to work. When asking when we would find out who won the 5 bitcoin prize for best use of it we were told to contact bitpay. I contacted them multiple times and support told me to to contact their CEO who ended up not responding to my emails. I will not use bitpay in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lnanek2</author><text>Yeah, prize disbursements were handled terribly. My team won BitPay&amp;#x27;s prize at AngelHack SF, contacted them repeatedly, and were told to wait until all AngelHacks were over before anything would be done. Months and months later it arrived this week. We actually avoided BitPay intentionally at a couple hackathons after since no one was sure if they were just scammers or not.&lt;p&gt;That said, I had no problem with their API. They had an easy web checkout link that could be generated that worked fine in an Android WebView for my first implementation. Later at AngelHack SV I used their PHP API to generate invoices for specific prices for goods dynamically and was then still able to send people to their site to finish checkout and get redirected when it completed.&lt;p&gt;Didn&amp;#x27;t really see any missing documentation and their site worked fine, responding quite quickly when money was sent to the barcode it showed or the link that could start a wallet app on Android, and their PHP sample code worked trivially. Who knows, maybe they&amp;#x27;ve improved the docs and samples since you used it, though. Or you were trying to hack bitcore, which is a completely different level of difficulty.</text></comment>
<story><title>BitPay and PayPal</title><url>http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/09/23/bitpay-and-paypal-an-unbeatable-payment-partnership.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trevordev</author><text>BitPay sponsored angel-hack Seattle that I participated in this summer. Their developer api was horrible and poorly documented wasting everyone time. I was in one of the few groups that got it to work. When asking when we would find out who won the 5 bitcoin prize for best use of it we were told to contact bitpay. I contacted them multiple times and support told me to to contact their CEO who ended up not responding to my emails. I will not use bitpay in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martindale</author><text>Hey, Eric with BitPay here.  If you&amp;#x27;re still waiting on information about AngelHack, email me: eric@bitpay.com&lt;p&gt;We just this past week launched our new REST API, which should be significantly better than our old API: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/09/18/announcing-the-new-bitpay-api.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.bitpay.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;announcing-the-new-bitpay-...&lt;/a&gt; – we spent a long time thinking very carefully about making the developer experience as smooth as possible, but I&amp;#x27;m sure there are things we can be doing better.  If you&amp;#x27;ve any ideas on how we can improve it, please let me know.</text></comment>