BitShare Login for Merchants - much more to offer them!

[Shentist]

1. With integration the merchant can post his homepage to the blockchain and can register his service for free oder a small fee into it. We will include in the client a list of merchants who are accepting bitUSD or other BTS assets.
2. We could also include a voting system for the merchants, so that customers can vote for good merchants. Kind of reputation system

I think that is a brilliant idea.  Do it for free, as them accepting bitUSD brings great value to the network. 

So once VOTE features come online making it 1 person 1 vote, we could offer merchants a BitShares identity to allow them to be part of a fair rating system so they could be voted as a top-rated merchant by the most authoritative rating system available and included in an 'ultimate catalogue' of recommended merchants built into the client.  It would be like offering merchants a link from your bank account, very valuable, providing they can get a good rating by operating an excellent business.

Or as you say it could be done without VOTE just by including them in a catalogue in the client if they add BitShares login + bitUSD.

Come to think of it the VOTE stuff could be used on ratings sites like IMDB to prevent sybill attacks.  IMDB could have a BitShares identity and promote to their users to create a BitShares identity (+ identity verified) so their movie voting becomes un-gameable, making it the most reliable in the industry.

Amazing marketing angle + really useful technology! 

catalogue + vote would be awsome. with this over time it will bring more merchants to accept bitUSD.

In a ideal world it would be like

1. integrate the wordpress payment solution (include homepage information, category he want to get published)
2. after integration the merchant wallet will automatically send to the blockchain the integration information and the merchant would be listed on the intern catalogue.
3. after months he will get the first votes or downvotes (maybe consider downvote here)

[matt608]

1. With integration the merchant can post his homepage to the blockchain and can register his service for free oder a small fee into it. We will include in the client a list of merchants who are accepting bitUSD or other BTS assets.
2. We could also include a voting system for the merchants, so that customers can vote for good merchants. Kind of reputation system

I think that is a brilliant idea.  Do it for free, as them accepting bitUSD brings great value to the network. 

So once VOTE features come online making it 1 person 1 vote, we could offer merchants a BitShares identity to allow them to be part of a fair rating system so they could be voted as a top-rated merchant by the most authoritative rating system available and included in an 'ultimate catalogue' of recommended merchants built into the client.  It would be like offering merchants a link from your bank account, very valuable, providing they can get a good rating by operating an excellent business.

Or as you say it could be done without VOTE just by including them in a catalogue in the client if they add BitShares login + bitUSD.

Come to think of it the VOTE stuff could be used on ratings sites like IMDB to prevent sybill attacks.  IMDB could have a BitShares identity and promote to their users to create a BitShares identity (+ identity verified) so their movie voting becomes un-gameable, making it the most reliable in the industry.

Amazing marketing angle + really useful technology! 

[Shentist]

After reading Bytemasters blogpost about BitShare Login - i realised we could do so much more for merchants.

Why just stop with integration of accepting bitUSD?

I thought; right now it is not so attractive to integrate bitUSD but why not deliver more value for them?

I mean bitUSD is huge, but we all now, we need time to get it rolling, but what if we include some feature like

1. With integration the merchant can post his homepage to the blockchain and can register his service for free oder a small fee into it. We will include in the client a list of merchants who are accepting bitUSD or other BTS assets.
2. We could also include a voting system for the merchants, so that customers can vote for good merchants. Kind of reputation system

So with this included the pitch would be
"Accept bitUSD as payment. You will get access to a +30.000 Community with automatic publishing your service in our wallet. On top you will get a cheap, reliable payment solution who will easily can converted into USD or something else if you want."

Would this be possible, and would it help to get the bitUSD of the ground? I think so, but what are you thinking?