https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/discovery-and-monetization/payment-request/deep-dive-into-payment-request
What's the relevance? No crypto support that I can detect:
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The relevance is newly developed payment request API being deployed - W3C has been working on it for some time (since 2013) It will improve checkouts - and be usable and inter-operable across all major browsers- and in app social media platform browsers....in a push towards standardising payment methods - a push towards currency agnostic web payment standard to streamline checkout and user experience... and seeing as BTC is touted as a means of sending value online- it is relevant.. its Bitcoin- its Google-its W3C it Chrome, Edge Firefox-facebook its the fricken internet. The fact they even use XBT as an example is enough- but the I hope understood implication of "build it and they will come" should make sense to you...
Do you honestly think they decided to simply use XBT as an example for no reason..? methinks not.
Sure as of today right this second -it doesn't mean much- but the implication is obvious? non?
Today - right now does it allow for receiving BTC payments using the payment request API- no.. (well yes actually, people just need to start coding and integrating it;) but will it in say 6-9 months have been rolled out- yes I believe so!! - this has just been released as a stable build expect coders to code and businesses to integrate.. and as it has the capability to support "future currencies" whaddya suppose they are referring to? SDR's? (lol)
It is just another step towards mainstream and ubiquity and general acceptance.
I thought a cryptocurrency thread was a relevant enough place for it - outside of a google developers forum-maybe its just me?