how exactly does one walk into a shopify store?
the point was about physical flesh-to-flesh shopping experiences.
the point was about physical flesh-to-flesh shopping experiences.
If they have a POS Terminal at their physical brick and mortar store powered by Shopify, they can do just that [0] and it accepts crypto payments.
The same for Stripe Terminal which allows contactless payments with stablecoins such as USDC [0] for physical stores. They can accept crypto from there and Stripe handles the transaction seamlessly.
[0] https://www.shopify.com/uk/pos
[1] https://www.privy.io/blog/contactless-payments-with-stableco...
Like can you pay with crypto at a Stripe POS when the infrastructure goes down? Or was this just completely irrelevant?
which makes sense, you'd either end up paying in pegged, virtual crypto dollars, or pay with a completely separate crypto currency which then means that the shoes you bought a month ago are suddenly worth a magnitude more or less. might as well pay in turkish lira.
[0]https://www.six-group.com/en/home.html [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SumUp
Revolut, for example, has confirmed all its operations, that include, sign-ups, sign-ins, payments and transfers, top-ups, ATM withdrawals, stock trades, cryptocurrency, are all down.
For example, Phantom Wallet, MetaMask and Robinhood Wallet doesn't need a bank to make payments and send money anywhere.