Quote from: 麥可貓 on December 27, 2015, 01:04:28 pm

No complex software is involved, the key secret is how BitoEX persuade Famiymart to do so.

Let the competition do the persuasion. Over 50K businesses use the Odoo software, businesses like Cox Communications for example (they have millions of customers). Instead of trying to convince 1 corporation, I would rather provide options for 50K hungry businesses all at once, some whom of which are competing with each other. Hence, we kill 50K birds with 1 stone (in a sense).

1. If blockchain technology, or at least bitcoin, has become a self-evident phenomena, then yes companies would be persuaded naturally. If it is still the frontier of innovation, then as I know a commercial expert is the key to bridge two worlds.
2. Convicing 1 corporation with 2986 branches (aka Familymart) is definitely better than convicing 50k corporations in many ways. You cannot have the man power to convince 50k corporations, hence it is not like kill 50k birds with one stone, it is actually sit and wait 50k birds die naturally.
3. A good example is the bts cart. As I can recall, it has been done for a long time. Look how many web shops are using it?

1. great aims, makes you imagine if someday stores can include such POS and people can buy goods using cell phone wallet.
2. but think twice, what they actually offer is just the software to do so, and does not include any plans to persuade stores to use it.
3. Are softwares the key to realize this goal? No, just like carts using bts has been written for a long time, still almost no one is using it.
4. To sum up, the keys to enable people purchasing goods using cryptos at stores in your neighborhood are a) find the correct target that would like to try this with minimal efforts and costs and b) a correct strategy to avoid potential legal issue in some countries
5. Is what I am talking about possible? Yes, check this out if you have not read this:
https://medium.com/@digital654321/familymart-now-accpets-bitoex-s-bitcoin-wallet-to-buy-goods-b85c9bac78f2#.j0w9fw1na

In brief, a small Taiwan bitcoin exchange BitoEX has cooperated with Familymart convinience store to buy goods at every Familymart in your neighborhood in Taiwan. And the way they doing it, using bitcoin to buy coupons that you use to exchange into goods, avoids potential legal problems. All BitoEX has to do is to write is a small software for the small computer (aka Famiport) used in every Familymart. Simple enough for the developer team and the store. Once again, the key thing is the business strategy, not any fancy program.

Quote from: 麥可貓 on November 14, 2015, 06:01:30 am

Whatever it will be,  the most important thing is to be a simple stupid one for consumers,  not an  all in one giant trash.
As for me,  the client performance of bts2.0 is good for me,  but it is really hard to use comparing with other exchanges,  like poloniex,  bitoex,  cryptosy etc.

Here's an excerpt from someone (I won't name them, but they're HUGE and hope they don't mind me posting this) that I respect in the cryptocurrency ecosystem ...

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It's amazing how the most competitive, centralized space is the one that he [Dan] still is choosing to go after when the solutions offered by bitshares in any other market are revolutionary and not in need of improvement besides a real UI design.

Yeah,  the UI design is everything for consumers,  and it has to be real for consumers,  not programmers.  As for me,  the killer app for a currency is making payments (just like making calls for a phone),  and every works should take this as guiding princle, target use case,  not any other fancy profound idea in the programmers mind. Following this idea,  the killer app to realize payment should be on a phone,  ios and android.  You dont bring your laptop to 7-11 to buy a coke.

I think sarcasm is 90% lost in writing... 100% lost in translation.

oh sarcasm... sorry that I mistaken it as a serious thing,and forgot to bring my sense of humor.

A problem under linux: the muse app icon is incorrect under linux (left, linux mint 17.2), while the bts icon is correct (right):



btw the muse icon under windows is corrent

只会黑的人走的越快越好
只会抱怨的人也是一样

Please feel free to brainstorm.

Since that this kind of ATM could have a receipt, why not consider having a receipt lottery?
I think receipt could further encourage people to use this ATM and go on ramp besides the burning mechanism built inside BitShares.
And different formula for receipt lottery could be tried: tiny prizes with lots of winners (and higher expectation to win), or large prizes with only a few winners.