A while back I offered to buy someone a pizza for 10,000HODL in honor of the original first bitcoin transaction that made that exchange. I'm still interested in paying USD to have a pizza delivered to someone in the U.S.A for 10,000HODL. PM me if you want to make that happen. 10k HODL is worth about $17 at the moment but I'll throw in a couple bucks to make it happen if need be.
For those outside of the U.S.A., someone on the HODL Facebook page is interested in buying a pizza for 10,000HODL in Australia.
Who will get to make the pizza transaction first? The U.S.A. or AUS?
Also, someone mentioned several months ago that they were looking at adding HODL as a payment option in their online grocery if it unforked. Whoever that was, well, we're unforked! Go to it!
hey wise, I'll ping you on Slack to work out the details but I'll get this pizza thing done for team USA! although to be honest I'm actually already working on the logistics of also completing the AUS transaction via a middleman so I'm playing both sides
I'm also working on the logistics of setting up a small test site where people can HODLshop from available inventory and how it needs to work for them to "pay in HODL", so would like to get some initial feedback on that here from everyone:
- what do you think is the best practice for online store with altcoins? who is doing it already that we can look to as a possible good or bad model?
- I was thinking of just doing a static price in HODL for each item (i.e. "all items 100HODL ea." similar to "The Dollar Store" model) and static shipping fee; thoughts on that approach?
- then I was just going implement a high-trust version to start where there is just an address for the user to send to and then I will ship the item personally. Do you guys like this idea, or should I just work on an actual payment processing layer that's more "official" as in any stranger with low-trust would be likely to feel okay using it (like a new user to amazon or ebay, etc)? I don't want to force the idea that this is the same as the silk road or anything but high-trust is the easiest to implement because the end user of course is accepting all of the risk by sending the HODL to a "stranger" with no recourse should any part of the transaction fall through.
as to the last point, I will state for the record that my intention with this is to proof-of-concept the ideas of altcoin e-commerce and help to acquire, process, and share the data, and, subsequently, the knowledge, that these kind of test scenarios provide. if anyone wants to offer their trust on the customer side, I will make it my goal to reciprocate that trust as a product/service provider in the HODL community.
cheers,
fin
