One of the fundamental basics of a cryptocurrency is being able to buy and sell with it. Specifically being able to accept it for goods and services, or vice-versa. While there are services like Coinbase Commerce or Coinpayments.net they're third-party solutions and they also take a cut of the transaction (or charge a fee, which is the same).
For Hive, a crucial component of its success is the ability to transact with it. I know Hive is a social blockchain token, but I see it as a reward for content sharing and curation, and who says you shouldn't be able to spend your reward? Sure, you can trade it, but not all of us are traders or like the experience of trading.
Which is why I have started work on an open-source hive payments library that can be self-hosted. Accept HIVE and HBD for different goods and services easily by downloading and running the Node.
The end result is to have an open-source codebase that the Hive community that freely use to accept HIVE/HBD as well as create an accompanying PayPal like service for those who do not want to self-host and want to transact in HIVE and HBD tokens.
The project is quite far along for only one days worth of work, but there is a lot to finish. However, I wanted to announce what I am working on and invite the community to contribute if they're interested in helping out. I think a solid payments application is an absolute necessity for the Hive blockchain.
The code can be found on GitHub here: https://github.com/Vheissu/hivepayments
Merchant services and payment gateways are a must for merchant adoption and attracting businesses onto any blockchain.
Hopefully it has (or can use data from) a simple QR reader for real world. The hive.blog and/or peakd wallet should re-introduce the QR reader and that would work just fine.
Third party services are kl but internal (chain related DApps) like DigiCafe (Digibyte’s merchant DApp) is another successful project to consider when building a Hive payment gateway.
*QR sheet at @miyard
Really looking forward to this. We are building a smart city in Negril, Jamaica and HIVE is an integral part.
Bless
we need a plugin solution for wordpress and woocommerce like the woocommerce steem plugin. I was thinking about forking that code myself, but would be interested in seeing what you can come up with as I am rusty with my coding skills and would take a minute to refresh, lol
This is a wonderful idea maybe some kind of hivecard can be created similar to the bitcoin to visa gift cards, this isn't just true for Hive its all cryptos the ability to easily transact with it is what people really want :) I will follow this and support it along the way.
@jongolson