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June 14, 2014, 10:34:48 AM |
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Hi,
in my quest to make bitcoin more popular I decided to convice at least one merchant to accept Bitcoin in 2014. To achive that I was looking into several ways to make the first contact as painless as possible for the merchant. So I'm looking for a solution that does not require online-setups, bank transfers, wallet safety concerns etc. but just an easy way of accepting bitcoin on the merchants terms.
Easiest of course is a printed out QR and ask the customers to send there, but that leaves the conversion rate for goods, which are still payed for in EUR here, up to the customer or the merchant would have to utilise some external coversion tool and compare digital digits etc. e.g. not painless.
So then I came across "blockchain merchant" which looks absolutely beautiful, does exactly what I asked for above.
- Set up your currency
- set up your BTC address
- punch in how many EUR/USD/... you want
it would create a QR code requesting this amount in btc according to the current exchange rate, and notice the mercant once this amount has been registered incoming
I would offer to give him the € for the btc he collects to the at-the-time conversion rate, merchant would not care about anything, punch in the € in his register. and I'd have a (hopefully) constant supply of btc without hassle :p At least for the first xxx €, if merchant gets constant btc customers it drives his business, and he would see the need for something proper (bitpay etc).
But then...
- "blockchain merchant" uses the blockchain.info logo, but is operated by blockchain.com
- blockchain.com is offline now, so the app is not working any more since last week or such
- several ppl offered bountys on the identitiy of the blockain.com operator, which builds not up trust in this site ;-)
So coinbox... the alternative with 3 times as many options, less "nice" UI... setting it up, testing it... but after punching in the price in € the QR code in display is just the plain bitcoin address one configured before. So hardly any advantage to the printed out paper QR.
Local wallets on a portable device introduce security concerns, theft, loss etc. I want the BTC requested to some offline wallet directly.
I've been searching up and down, left and right, but can't find anything. Can anyone suggest a proper solution to me?
Thanks,
nibbIer
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