Consumer Internet, Digital content, Online payments
Founded
2002; 22 years ago (2002) in Mountain View, California, United States
Defunct
January 26, 2007 (2007-01-26)
Headquarters
San Mateo, California, United States
Key people
Kurt Huang, Founder Gyuchang Jun, Founder, CTO Doug Knopper, CEO
Products
Bitpass buyer account, Bitpass Professional merchant account, Bitpass Studio merchant account
Revenue
undisclosed
Number of employees
undisclosed
Website
www.bitpass.com
BitPass was an American company from 2002-2007 that developed an online payment system for digital content and services including micropayments. One of its best-known projects was the Mperia online music store catering to unsigned artists.
the charge was 15% of the price paid by the buyer (Bitpass Professional merchant account fee). BitPass also partnered with major technology and financial...
Kurt Huang is co-founder, president, and chief product officer of BitPass. He has a Computer Science degree from Harvard and an MD from Stanford.[citation...
bitrate range and/or average bitrate. In the last pass, the encoder distributes the available bits among the entire video to achieve uniform quality....
2003 through the BitPass micropayment service McCloud was a consultant for at the time. The third part was never released, and when BitPass went under in...
BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data...
A bit array (also known as bitmask, bit map, bit set, bit string, or bit vector) is an array data structure that compactly stores bits. It can be used...
information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer...
McCloud was an early advocate of micropayments. He was an adviser to BitPass, a company that provided an online micropayment system, which he helped...
with large enough state can pass even stringent statistical tests; a modulo-264 LCG which returns the high 32 bitspasses TestU01's SmallCrush suite,[citation...
Two Bits is a 1995 American drama film directed by James Foley and starring Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Jerry Barone. It was written by...
BleachBit's file shredder uses only a single, "secure" pass because its developers believe that there is a lack of evidence that multiple passes, such...
current for all bitspass through an equivalent resistance of 2R to ground. The less significant the bit, the more resistors its signal must pass through. At...
control bit. If the control bit is 1, the gate swaps the target bits; if 0, the bitspass through unchanged. Reversible Computing: The gate is reversible...
Pennsylvania. In that drill, the drill bitpassed through the piston of a steam engine. The piston snagged the drill bit and hurled it against the rock face...
to passed between servers and clients in addition to "the data" (i.e., request or response) and thus may be considered to be overhead bits. Such bits are...
BattleBit Remastered is a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter developed by a team of three indie developers—SgtOkiDoki, Vilaskis, and TheLiquidHorse—and...
complete digital graphic novel through Bitpass. It was the second comic content offered for sale through Bitpass, the first being Scott McCloud's story...
ring is a metal loop on a horse harness through which the lines (reins) pass to prevent them from tangling or getting snagged on the harness or shafts...
(corresponding to lower block addresses) than on inner tracks, as more bitspass under the head with each rotation; this difference can be 25% or more...
glossary of jargon related to peer-to-peer file sharing via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent at Wikipedia's sister projects Definitions from Wiktionary...
high formation pressures and prevent blowouts. As a well is drilled, the bitpasses through various formations, each with different characteristics. The deeper...
article Dan Guido, the CEO of Trail of Bits, called LastPass a popular password manager (alongside Dashlane, KeePass, and 1Password), with the choice between...
not GIF". PNG supports palette-based images (with palettes of 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA colors), grayscale images (with or without an alpha channel for...