Introduction

MultiBit Store is a fully functional online store that works as a client to the MultiBit Merchant platform. Please refer to the MultiBit Merchant Wiki for more information about what it does.

MultiBit Store will allow you to run an online shop that has the following features:

• you are in control - nobody is running this for you
• extremely low hosting costs - possibly close to zero monthly cost for low volume sites
• payment accepted in Bitcoin so no transaction fees or chargeback risk
• highly automated - very little to maintain once you've configured it to your requirements
• all requests through HTTPS - reduces the chances of malicious code causing problems

Security notes

No private Bitcoin keys are kept with the client

Instead, the client is able to access a collection of public keys from the MBM platform which is pre-loaded and kept topped up on a regular basis by an administrator. (There are plans to use a public key generator to remove this requirement in the near future) . An address is only used up when it is shown, and this only occurs in the payment page which does not permit external CSS or JavaScript. This reduces the attack vectors to a direct hack against the server which is much harder to accomplish than, say, a SQL-injection attack.

No administration roles

This client is limited to basic individual customer account operations to allow customers to self-administer their profiles. To perform administration requires the MultiBit Admin tool available as a different client.

Where next?

Try out the latest release candidate online - might be a little slow to start due to low traffic but saves the trouble of installation

Installation instructions for developers - try it out on your machine