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sidenote: one thing I find tricky about cryptocurrencies is that payment processors have snazzy interfaces for accepting crypto, but the similar interfaces don
by rolltiide 7y ago
sidenote:
one thing I find tricky about cryptocurrencies is that payment processors have snazzy interfaces for accepting crypto, but the similar interfaces don't seem to be available for open-source non-intermediary payment flows.
payment flows seem to be almost non-existent.
Its like "here just accept bitcoin" - when I really want to accept Monero - and there is almost no out of the box solution that rotates addresses for you, gives users a countdown and address solution, listens for transactions of the correct amount to that address to automatically update the payment site etc
- wmf 7y agoThere's no actual market for that. In theory, if people were using cryptocurrency to buy stuff and they believed in the "be your own bank" philosophy there would be a market, but none of that really exists.
- rolltiide 7y agoYeah, you'd think and thats the easy answer. The free open-source solutions slowly trickle out, but it just could be so much further along. And yes, the abscense of merchants seriously trying to accept crypto, and the abscence of people seriously trying to spend it does it make a self-fulfilling prophecy. but fixing these other problems of lack of free library will go a long way to fixing the speculator conundrum