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Is Bitcoin Lightning feasible for contactless retail payments on the go?
208 sats \ 2 comments \ @beameduplol 9h bitcoin
I have used LN-BTC to purchase giftcards for some games I play and services I use. I've noticed you can even pay your phone bills or groceries by purchasing giftcards for those with your Bitcoins.
While I love online payments in that sense, how about a standard merchant accepting Bitcoin Lightning? I do recall Breez having a "Merchant Mode", but I don't know how practical it is, simply as I am not a merchant.
Is it just a concept that is yet to spring into (mainstream) action? I have heard about that one Burger place that accepts Bitcoin Lightning, but not much else in terms of retail mainstream acceptance of Bitcoin. I would love to see consumers be able to use their satoshis to refuel their car, shop for instant noodles at convenience stores, etc. Not have to pre-purchase (and then also use within the allocated time & not forget about it) a giftcard then walk to a store/order online.
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162 sats \ 1 reply \ @carter 8h
I think it is... I've been looking into integrating with toast https://doc.toasttab.com/doc/devguide/apiCreatingAnOrderWithPaymentInformation.html They have a way to mark orders as paid so you really just need a way to show a lighting invoice qr code to the customer. Like you said they do this for self checkout at the burger place. I was thinking you could have some tablet or similar to allow them to pay and as soon as the invoice is paid the restaurants lighting node can mark the check paid via their api
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @beameduplol OP 1h
The toast you linked to looks exactly like what you'd normally see in a kiosk. Seems like the technology is there, now need to see it be integrated.
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