157 sats \ 9 replies \ @Sasquatch 18 Nov 2023 \ on: What is the best lightning business idea that nobody else is doing? bitcoin
I've got an idea. Let me first state the problem.
Let us say we want to order some physical product from somewhere near or far, and that product needs a delivery address. I would like to be able to obscure the physical address for delivery, w/o using a PO box.
How could physical addresses be rendered in LN adresses?
This also brings to mind mapping the physical world onto Bitcoin or Lightning thru use of Geo addresses encoded onto Ordinals or something of the sort.
Yes. There is no need for every e-commerce merchant to know your physical address. There have been a couple explorations, but a lot of work still needs to be done to make it practical. See this SN thread
If done right, it feels like we should be able to take the Amazon Prime model and flip it inside out.
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Maybe some sort of middleman approach.
Like the product is sent to address X and then forwarded onto address Y.
The problem with this approach is that the middleman needs to know everything.
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Thats the problem
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Love the concept. Hope would be for those locations to be disposable and privacy first. Funny how I mentioned something similar before reading this earlier today.
What3Words exists but is not privacy minded.
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3 words is a really cool site. I'll definitely play around with that.
I have an idea on how it could be done. In order to get from point A to point B a route is determined, and the forwarding stations along the way are determined in the shipping contract. Each point along the way only sees the next destination for the pkg. So the final destination is only known by the final carrier.
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Wow
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aren't there services now that let you proxy your address. why do you need to connect the protocol to addresses, couldn't you just setup a collection address and then accept lightning for payment?
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How do you deliver a kilo of coffee to the address?
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Concert tickets!
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