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Lol it was a good run, I remember this and freedoge coin was one of the first faucets I milked for coins and I thank them for being part of the journey! Oh well
Ive spent the last 2 weeks learning everything I can about building a drift car, don't ask me why this bug bit me, but I am too deep in now
Lol this is the new normal, the hyperscaling gross negative margin AI startup that needs to get big enough for a government bailout
Lol the strategic Bitcoin IOU, possibly rehypothicated, paying management fees strategic reserve has been established!
Until he has to sell BTC to buy back stock to rebalance the NAV, then i'd say the party is over...but not over over, his got so much Bitcoin he can probably pull off a recovery
Lol don't think playing an movie-esque 1950s character and monetising those views and doing brand deals for consumer brands is all that trad
In theory the numbers are even higher than reported since most retailers don't even know their payment rails/provider supports it, IE peach, payfast and Zapper and don't interact with the Bitcoin to them it's just a usual digital payment that settles in Rands.
Having done this several times, if you ever ask can I pay in Bitcoin the staff will look at you like a complete goofy! You have to say do you have zapper or look out for one of the payment provider logos
But it does work well, i've used it at stores, resturants, even paying for parking and settlement has never been an issue
Most of the volume is coming direct from exchange wallets who are also offering cash back in USDT for sending BTC but as a non-kyc bitcoin holder you'll get the same experience, (except having to download an extra app)
This reminds me of the period of time when I was a shitcoiner listening to all these YouTubers making money on pump and dumps and sponsorships speaking with complete conviction and it always puts the hair up on the back of my neck.
Everyone planning for what's supposed to go right, discounting everything that could go wrong to zero.
You make a lot of money, generate wealth for all shareholders, create jobs and pay salaries, drive deflation in the marketplace by offering cheaper goods and services, you pay company tax, income tax and all of that is still not enough, wild times!
Oef! And I just thought their data mining would be a big enough turn off, its a hard pass from me! But i'm pretty sure there's no shortage of normies lining up to get rekt by these browsers
Would be cool to just pull in these block explorers data (and trust their node operators) into a GPT and spit out a "Blocked" -chain report
How many addresses frozen
How much volume blocked
And the trend of blocks per month
And then call to action - Get freedom money! and link to a P2P exchange!
Noted, thanks! I've used the zapper payment with bitcoin before and I recently tested out the payfast one too!
Yeah, makes it a lot easier, doing it through bitrefill was a pain before and vouchers aren't always practical for some purchases! If you're self custodial you living the dream with all this onboarding by moneybadger thats for sure
Wonder how the settlement is done in the backend, pretty sure none of these big players are keen on treasuries right now and just want the cash
Hmmm, will have to go find a shell garage and see they're pretty hard to find these days, might just be indepedants that haven't rebranded too because there was news last year that they are leaving SA - https://businesstech.co.za/news/energy/773706/shell-kisses-south-african-service-stations-and-refinery-goodbye/
Hmmm that's a lot of touch points to hit, I doubt one single service or software can manage it all, and you'll have to either make some consessions or you'll have to play the middle man between all the software in play
I have worked with 1 non-profit and while they wanted to accept Bitcoin, they didnt' actually care too much about it, it was just an add on and they are more focused ont he cash and there isn't anyone technical to manage it so they went with - https://thegivingblock.com/ and for LN they're using a local payment provider that is linked up to moneybadger but on their end all they get is cash
For the front end its going to depend on how involved you want to be you can use something like BTCpay or Zaprite https://zaprite.com/ - if you're running a node yourself or something like https://paywithflash.com/flash-automated-treasury-early-access/ that you can hook up to a node or albyhub for example
As for the holding of funds, you'll need a few technical people onboard to each manage their key which is a ball ache if you do it DIY
Or you can look at something like unchained
https://www.unchained.com/donor-advised-funds
Who can at least come in an advice
but for every company you bring into the stack theirs costs involved! More DIY is cheaper but a lot of time involved in upkeep