Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Customers

Re:Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Cu... by spectramax on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:23AM (#19282167)

> See, neither of these things can be presented to a user as a tool that can make their lives better

Did you read the article?

Quoting: "In 2014 a large school of thought suggested that the main breakthrough use case for Bitcoin would be peer to peer transactions. That being customers and businesses paying for goods and services directly between one another without having to rely on payment networks such as Visa."

The use case is certainly for consumers. Direct consumers. Same with Linux Desktop. Just go to Ubuntu.com - what are they pitching?

In my view, there is no question whether there is a lack of user focus. It is one of the major reasons (if not the top reason) for lack of traction.

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Re:Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Cu... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:30AM (#19282279)

> That being customers and businesses paying for goods and services directly between one another without having to rely on payment networks such as Visa.

We already have cash for that! It completely ignores the reasons why people use payment networks like Visa instead of just exchanging cash. There are fraud protections, credit, reward points, etc. What bitcoin brings to the table is simply not something very many people actually want for the tradeoffs involved.

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Re:Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Cu... by spectramax on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:42AM (#19282450)

I’m with you. They’re not designed for consumer use. The core of the argument of this thread is - these technologies are being marketed and pitched towards consumers despite of what you’re highlighting.

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