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	::uberGeek::Help::What is BitPass?()
		Bitpass works a lot like Paypal, and keeps things as simple as possible.
		BitPass is a brand new payment system, being used by artists and professionals across the web, as an easy to use alternative payment system.
		BitPass connects securely to your Paypal, Visa, or MasterCard, buying pre-paid BitPass credit in amounts of $3 and up.
	www.ubergeek.tv /article.php?pid=52 (362 words)

	THE BEAT » Blog Archive » Bitpass closes
		Bitpass ws a company that was set up to enable micropayments — now it has gone out of business, and T Campbell has some commentary.
		Bitpass in particular became a rallying point, thanks largely to its endorsement by the influential Scott McCloud, who had already become one of micropayments’ most prominent enthusiasts after the publication of his Reinventing Comics (excerpted here).
		And while it might sound unprofessional to blame BitPass for any of it, I will say this: they were just another company who had a great idea that assumed said brilliant notion was just enough to get the whole world to pay attention to them.
	pwbeat.publishersweekly.com /blog/2007/01/22/bitpass-closes (1035 words)

	BitPass: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BitPass is a micropayment (additional info and facts about micropayment) system for online content and services.
		Kurt Huang (additional info and facts about Kurt Huang) being a co-founder and CEO, the company is based in California (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes).
		BitPass reduces the fee of payment to 15 cents a dollar by charging the user when he or she funds the account.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bitpass1.htm (75 words)

	goats: Goats News forum: POLL: I Come To Bury Bitpass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As of today, January 19, 2007, all Bitpass Buyers with US dollar denominated accounts are being notified that they will have seven (7) days to spend any amounts that currently exist in their Bitpass Account.
		On January 26, all US Bitpass Buyer accounts will be closed and we will begin the process of refunding all unspent monies to the accountholder.
		And no one since has produced any evidence that any webcomics creator was able to use Bitpass to create a sizable revenue stream (aside from Scott McCloud, whose audience consists in large part of folks who are interested in webcomics innovation).
	www.goats.com /forums/news/3252/?threshold=-1 (923 words)

	SiliconBeat: Payments company BitPass swallows up Yaga
		BitPass, the digital payments company out of Menlo Park, is announcing today its acquisition of competitor Yaga.
		BitPass is among a handful of companies, including Peppercoin, hoping to get scale in the still emerging micropayments industry, where transactions are measured in cents and individual dollars.
		BitPass has taken two rounds of funding, the latest in the fall of 2004, when it raised $11.75 million from Worldview Technology Partners, Steamboat Ventures (the venture capital arm of the Walt Disney Co.), RRE Ventures and others.
	www.siliconbeat.com /entries/2006/01/05/payments_company_bitpass_swallows_up_yaga.html (246 words)

	T Campbell's Blog: Breaking: Bitpass, Too, Shall Pass
		Bitpass account holders have seven days to spend any cash in their account.
		Bitpass' direct competitors, ClickandBuy and Peppercoin, continue to operate, but have never attracted an indie-cartoonist clientele like Bitpass'.
		I doubt that Bitpass itself would advertise such a thing, but since it was fairly easy for anyone to become a Bitpass merchant, the odds would favor it.
	www.tcampbell.net /2007/01/breaking-bitpass-too-shall-pass.html (714 words)

	Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content
		To read The Right Number, you have to sign up for the BitPass micropayment system; once you have an account, the comic itself costs 25 cents.
		BitPass will fail, as FirstVirtual, Cybercoin, Millicent, Digicash, Internet Dollar, Pay2See, and many others have in the decade since Digital Silk Road, the paper that helped launch interest in micropayments.
		What is interesting is the way the failure of micropayments, both past and future, illustrates the depth and importance of putting publishing tools in the hands of individuals.
	www.shirky.com /writings/fame_vs_fortune.html (2022 words)

	NOTHING SO STRANGE: Diary
		But BitPass could have huge implications for indie filmmakers and other artists for whom neither an advertising business model nor a subscription model makes sense.
		BitPass is new (public beta launched June 30), and the "earners"--BitPass's term for artists/sellers--are restricted to those who are working closely with BitPass for now (although you can sign up to be ready when BitPass finishes its beta period).
		McCloud has been dying for micropayments to be a reality for a long time (he's listed as an advisor to BitPass), and, with his inimitable clarity and skill, he partly explains why here.
	www.nothingsostrange.com /diary/071203.html (600 words)

	scottmccloud.com - Links
		BitPass launched in late June 2003 with the first micropayments system I ever liked enough to want to use it, but even before the launch, I was hardly an impartial observer.
		BitPass’ founders (Stanford grads Kurt Huang and Gyuchang Jun) had contacted me nearly seven months before the launch and shown me what they’d designed; I liked what I saw so much that I signed on to their board of advisors.
		In a recent article on micros, the players in the micropayments field were listed as BitPass, Yaga and the Boston-based Peppercoin (with a nod to PayPal as a potential “500-pound Gorilla” if they decide to enter the fray).
	www.scottmccloud.com /links/links.html (2045 words)

	BitPass Enables Premium Podcasts
		BitPass Unplugged(TM) Lets Content Providers Charge for Podcasts for First Time MENLO PARK, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- BitPass, Inc., the commerce platform for digital content and services, announced BitPass Unplugged(TM), a patent-pending, powerful new service that will give content providers the ability for the first time to charge for their podcasts.
		BitPass Unplugged will allow podcasters ranging from hobbyists to mainstream media organizations to increase revenue with a-la-carte and subscription-driven premium podcasts.
		About BitPass BitPass was founded in December 2002 to address the growing demand among digital content providers to efficiently monetize their online offerings through a-la-carte and subscription-based payment models.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-12-2005/0003596890&EDATE= (566 words)

	Innovating bit by bit (January 28, 2004)
		BitPass charges earners a 15 percent transaction fee and no fixed fee for every transaction under $5.
		It was also designed to be compatible with emerging and existing technologies to accommodate BitPass' thousands of earners and spenders all over the world.
		BitPass has also joined with Clear Channel to provide access to behind-the-scenes photos of Alicia Keys.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2004/2004_01_28.bitpass28jd.shtml (825 words)

	BitPass, Kurt Huang Interview - nPost
		Kurt Huang of BitPass shares his insights on transitioning from free to fee and how content providers can begin to monetize their sites.
		BitPass is a micropayment system for online content and services.
		We are not yet equal to cash broadly speaking, but we don't have to be everywhere for BitPass to be useful to people.
	www.npost.com /interview.jsp?intID=INT00081 (1151 words)

	Slashdot \| BitPass: Micropayment That Seems To Work
		What BitPass is asking is to install a 'gateway' [bitpass.com] to allow their service to work.
		Bitpass is cool, but I won't buy your blog.
		I've setup Bitpass for a client of mine [riddler.com], and we're working with it on a trial basis.
	www.slashdot.org /articles/03/11/09/2051240.shtml?tid=126&tid=187&tid=95 (6700 words)

	Virtual Parks microPayment FAQ
		BitPass stores a cookie in your browser, as well as keeping track of what items you purchased on their server.
		When BitPass finishes payment processing and goes to deliver the content to you, it accesses a server component on VirtualPark's webserver.
		This shift from https: to http: at the point of delivering your content is not a security risk because there is no personal or financial data in transit during the downloading of the file you requested.
	www.virtualparks.org /cargo/upay-notes.html (337 words)

	The Richter Scale Blog - Post: Bitpass Gone Without Much Warning - by Jake Richter
		And while the 15% cut that Bitpass took on all purchases was a bit steep, they tended to be very responsive to my unique requirements, adding numerous features to Bitpass for corporate use (as a large percentage of Patent Fetcher users are law firms and large corporations).
		Bitpass was a good thing while it lasted, but giving merchants more notice than consumers would have been greatly appreciated and desired.
		Instead, Bitpass merchants like myself have to scramble to communicate with our customers and deal with a sudden and near instant loss of revenue until alternatives can be found.
	blog.richterscale.org /index.php/weblog/bitpass_gone_without_much_warning (765 words)

	Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content
		To read The Right Number, you have to sign up for the BitPass micropayment system; once you have an account, the comic itself costs 25 cents.
		BitPass will fail, as FirstVirtual, Cybercoin, Millicent, Digicash, Internet Dollar, Pay2See, and many others have in the decade since Digital Silk Road, the paper that helped launch interest in micropayments.
		What is interesting is the way the failure of micropayments, both past and future, illustrates the depth and importance of putting publishing tools in the hands of individuals.
	shirky.com /writings/fame_vs_fortune.html (2022 words)

	Bitpass closing \| COMIXTALK
		We may have a number of webcomic Bowie’s or Costello’s, who are using bitpass to a very limited and shaky success.
		From this blog's comments comes some look at the behind the scenes position Bitpass was in, from an employee.
		I did indeed work for Bitpass, and they were actually making pretty good money until stakeholders from their rounds of VC funding pressured them to get out of the adult content business, neglect indie content creators and spend all of their resources on going after big media.
	www.comixpedia.com /nvonfluebitpass_closing (1911 words)

	WHAT IS BITPASS?
		BitPass is a system for making anonymous Internet purchases for small amounts of money.
		The BitPass account is like a pre-paid phone card -- you fund it with an amount as small as $3.00 then use it to pay Olive-Drab or some of the hundreds of other BitPass websites.
		BitPass keeps track of your download attempts and lets you go back and retry up to the max of five times (within 24 hours).
	www.olive-drab.com /od_bitpass.php (1258 words)

	Outside The System: BitTorrent + BitPass: Ethos & Practicalities
		Getting into the details of implementing a BitPass Gateway or a BitTorrent File Server is beyond the scope of this article, but the key concept to their integration is that both systems rely (at least primarily) on an http process at the webserver level.
		By putting both the torrent file and the BMO inside a directory that is BitPass gatewayed as a single content item, one could charge for access to the BMO -- but in a way that is admittedly porous, but at least more trackable than other P2P solutions.
		Because of BitPass, though, their client wouldn't gain access to the main BMO on the publisher's server, it would only be able to download from the peers -- which would likely be a painfully slow download until the tipping point of swarming efficiency is reached.
	www.radzone.org /bclark/archives/000088.html (831 words)

	Developing Systems of Online Payment
		BitPass was founded late last year by two Stanford University doctoral candidates, Kurt Huang and Gyuchang Jun. Their idea is based on the familiar debit card concept, where consumers buy "virtual cards" in specific denominations and shop at merchants who accept the BitPass card.
		With Bitpass, customers who find a magazine article or a song worth buying are prompted to sign up for the service with a credit card on a window that opens from the merchant's site, rather than having to click to the Bitpass site.
		BitPass merchants can set up the service on their sites in less than a half hour, according to the company, with no set-up costs.
	www.nytimes.com /2003/07/21/technology/21ECOM.html?ex=1374206400&en=1ba5d6c7bb462935&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (788 words)

	280 Insider Apr 27 2004 Prioritizing MRD Features, Bitpass, Catch!
		BitPass offers a micropayment service that is incredibly easy to use.
		Setting up a BitPass account and enabling it on your website also appears to be fairly easy.
		Several dozen companies have signed up to use their system - it will be interesting to watch over the next year or two as they attempt to get to critical mass.
	www.280group.com /insider/apr272004.htm (1218 words)

	Waxy.org: Daily Log: Paypal Challenges BitPass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Scott McCloud, one of their advisors and its most prominent user, stated that Bitpass was given seven days to provide Paypal evidence that their service isn't a violation of the U.S. Patriot Act.
		Their service is pretty much unaffected, you just need to charge your bitpass account up with a credit card only.
		Over the weekend BitPass' PayPal account was suspended pending assurances that BitPass and PayPal were in compliance with the US Patriot Act given the nature of the respective companies' services.
	www.waxy.org /archive/2003/10/13/paypal_c.shtml (777 words)

	BitPass Merchants Introduce Annual and Monthly Subscriptions - Website Access, Digital Content, and Business Services ...
		BitPass announced the availability of time based subscriptions for business services and entertainment merchants, rounding out its ability to deliver "by the sip", "live streams on demand", and via weekly, monthly, or yearly subscriptions.
		BitPass enables the sale of "by the sip" digital files and streams as well as daily, weekly, monthly, and annual subscriptions.
		BitPass was founded in December 2002 to address the growing demand for digital content (music, video, photo, news, patents, etc.) and the need for publishers to efficiently monetize their online offerings.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/7/prweb141375.htm (545 words)

	BitPass Micropayments User Survey » Small Business Trends
		Our survey sample is admittedly tiny — one person, me. But I can report that using BitPass on 8 or 10 different occasions, the experience has been uniformly positive each time.
		BitPass is a Web-based system, so all I need is a browser — no software to download.
		Somehow BitPass is going to have to close that price gap.
	www.smallbiztrends.com /2004/01/bitpass-micropayments-user-survey.html (568 words)

	Bitpass closing \| Comixpedia
		We may have a number of webcomic Bowie’s or Costello’s, who are using bitpass to a very limited and shaky success.
		From this blog's comments comes some look at the behind the scenes position Bitpass was in, from an employee.
		I did indeed work for Bitpass, and they were actually making pretty good money until stakeholders from their rounds of VC funding pressured them to get out of the adult content business, neglect indie content creators and spend all of their resources on going after big media.
	comixpedia.com /nvonfluebitpass_closing (1959 words)

	Podcasting News: BitPass Unplugged Lets Podcasters Charge by the Podcast
		BitPass has announced BitPass Unplugged, a new service that will give content providers the ability to charge for their podcasts.
		BitPass Unplugged will allow podcasters to offer a-la-carte and subscription-driven premium podcasts.
		BitPass plans to have the service available in Q4 2005.
	www.podcastingnews.com /archives/2005/05/bitpass_unplugg.html (352 words)

	Slashdot \| BitPass: Micropayment That Seems To Work
		What BitPass is asking is to install a 'gateway' [bitpass.com] to allow their service to work.
		The previous poster is right that the gateway installation complexity puts BitPass selling out of the hands of those who can't control what their host does, but I know that BitPass has specific plans to make becoming a BitPass seller much easier.
		I've setup Bitpass for a client of mine [riddler.com], and we're working with it on a trial basis.
	slashdot.org /articles/03/11/09/2051240.shtml?tid=126&tid=187&tid=95 (6692 words)

	RBS: Press Releases August 2005 - The Royal Bank of Scotland And Bitpass Team-Up on Foreign Exchange for Digital ...
		BitPass, Inc., a leading platform for monetizing digital content and services, announced an agreement with The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (RBS) to enable automated foreign exchange (FX) management online.
		BitPass will use the RBS FXmicropay service to aggregate, execute and settle transactions in more than 30 currencies, allowing international online content brands and portals that leverage the BitPass platform to conduct cross-border content sales at a high volume, while RBS manages the FX risk.
		BitPass was founded in December 2002 to address the growing demand among digital content providers to efficiently monetize their online offerings through à-la-carte and subscription-based payment models.
	www.rbs.com /media03.asp?id=MEDIA_CENTRE/PRESS_RELEASES/2005/AUGUST/08_BITPASS (685 words)

	Streamingmedia.com: Bean-Net And BitPass Partner On Affordable Broadband Streaming Solution
		BitPass’ payment system enables consumers to purchase and access broadband content in just a few seconds.
		Unlike competitive offerings that require a steep upfront development and integration fee, Bean-Net and BitPass provide a turnkey solution that can be deployed in as little as one day with little or no upfront fee.
		BitPass’ goal is to further expand the diversity of the Internet.
	www.streamingmedia.com /press/view.asp?id=2748 (533 words)

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