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I know this pay button seems like simple stuff, but I like to think we've done it next-level style:

- Crypto only but you can price in fiat (USD, etc) - Super private: our payment flow (hate that word) works over Tor with Javascript and Cookies disabled (Tor browser's highest setting). [although you can't collect email/refund addresses in that mode]

Just want to say that implementing a client for a binary protocol like Obelisk clears the head after too many JSON and wishy-washy web protocols.

Fixed-width binary fields, framed as 0MQ message frames/messages. Relaxing.

Code's author here: please be kind it's only my 3 or 4th Angular program. Angular is funky stuff (but powerful).

There are lots of simpler ATM's, like the Lamassu that have not gone overboard with the ID stuff.

Of course, these are really just dispensers (or bitcoin vending machines) and only support a single transaction type.

Just trying to keep the simple, simple... It's hard.

I mean as a programmer, the challenge is to keep making the simple changes easy to do. Often change management and testing start to get in the way.

The author here... I put this together right after I realized I could use it on so many of my different on-going projects. Of course geolocation is never perfect, but it adds lots of personality to a site to be able to list where people are coming from. Now with CORS support, means I can use this bit of infrastructure on all sorts of different browser-side JS projects.

Program's author here: the point of this app is to simplify the test and debug of the QR code itself. Although all reasonable people think they are pointless, countless graphic designers are forced to incorporate QR codes into their otherwise beautiful works. This app (and it's just an app, not an application) lets them quickly test variations.