I agree on the use case, this is something we could use help in...
If you want to help us with that, we could use someone to do Due Diligence on Debit cards for BiblePay, and/or finding a Christian merchant who sells bibles and would agree to integrate with us to accept BiblePay in their storefront. These are projects on our roadmap, and even having some of the initial steps done would further our utility goals. When the time comes, Rob offere dto help with the integration as well. (I would offer whatever assistance I could.)
I doubt there is a merchant who will agree to take Biblepay, because no one really uses it as a currency.
I actually looked into the debit card on another project.
Here's a couple of articles with a high level view of debit cards.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/302266https://cointelegraph.com/news/popularity-of-crypto-debit-cards-will-encourage-mainstream-adoptionHere's an article on crypto.com and their debit card.
https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2018/09/100000-crypto-visa-debit-cards-to-be-issued-by-crypto-com/https://crypto.com//en/cards.htmlHere's one that connects to coinbase:
https://www.shiftpayments.com/cardThis is one of the most popular cards:
https://bitpay.com/card/Here's a comparison of different cards:
https://www.cryptowisser.com/debit-cards/Every card I can find is hooked to bitcoin, bitcoin cash, or Litecoin. There arn't any from a project this small. The only option would be to find a bank who in someway wants to sponsor and do the card through them. Again, quite unlikely.
The only way I could see it working is if it were tied to bitcoin, and then some conversion to BBP. Again, the problem with exchanges. The hop from BTC to BBP would have to be transparent.
Frankly, I think this, like finding merchants to take BBP directly, is something that may work down the road, but feels premature to me. The project needs a much bigger base to take this step. It feels like we're trying to skip steps, but I'm not sure what the next step should be.
Sorry, I think it's a case of "can't get there from here".
Thank you for starting the research. We can't enter into the due diligence for either project with a defeatist mentality. We have to realize that it is possible, and we have to incrementally find the partner that likes us, schedule some time with them, make a sticky deal and then integrate when we meet the requirements.
I was envisioning - for either project - maintaining a spreadsheet - of every partner you contacted and finding the requirements, and explaining our unique situation until you have it sorted by best possibility.
For debit cards for example, the key is finding any community - as an altcoin - that has integrated with a debit card. Finding out if there is a roadblock in using the visa or mastercard model (still, as there was previously). And finding out if any generic debit cards or credit cards exist (they do, some are cleared by strange banks - that are not visa based).
Start with this web site:
https://uquid.com/altcoin-debit-cardIn Uquid I see a lot of alt-coins integrated at one point in time. But you would need find out if these are visa agreements, what the roadblock is, and if the entire system is halted then find an alternative to uquid - based on altcoin integration.
The similar process needs to occur as a separate project for storefront sales integration. There are altcoins that have integrated with merchants. We just need to find one that sells a cheap product that is willing to piggyback biblepay on as "one of the alts". Yes, they may require Y amount of volume per day. Once we have all those in a spreadsheet, we can then come back to the community with a monthly report - and talk about our lowest barriers.
Eventually, we will crack both with perseverance - as long as we shoot for a top50 exchange (possibly only requiring Cryptopia - possibly) and $2K per day volume (yes it might require more than that, but I'm just giving examples).
