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So Uber provides multiple safety checks. Drive ID verification, car verification, among other things. I'm wondering how these safety features will work in a decentralised platform.

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Uber's 5 star rating system went a long way in weeding out the bad drivers before all the regulations were implemented.

People who don't want to deal with the risk could only accept rides from experienced, highly rated drivers.

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Have a look at the example guild charter. The first point mentions vetting of drivers. But yeah - no idea who is responsible in the end for the vetting process.

I guess the guild for each city has to self-organize all the processes mentioned in their charter.

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I've heard of Arcade City, but I didn't realize this is what they were building.

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Very cool. Didn't see any app store links on their site, is the project live yet?

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They have a web "terminal" working.

Want to let @ArcadeCityHall know that your city is ready?

Show support by sending some sats for your city / any city. Mostly just a "stress-test" of their revenue share.

First log in via Terminal: https://arcade.city/terminal
Once logged in, visit the Stress Test page:
https://arcade.city/terminal/stresstest
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Feels like I'm stress testing their website. I'm trying to add sats to vote for my city, but nothing is happening when I click "Pay 5 sats".

Edit. Okay. Never mind. I think I've figured things out a bit.

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It doesn't look like it. According to their roadmap, they are planning on a July launch.

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True, I wonder why they're opting for a global release, rather than a focused launch in a single market to start

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Was wondering the same thing, since taxi norms and regulations are so incredibly heterogenous

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Seems like being profitable before having a product is a curse.

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Incentives work.

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Once this is up and running, it will likely be the first exposure to bitcoin for a lot of people. Especially for developing countries.

Our top 3 markets for initial focus will be Texas, the Philippines and Brazil.
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Hey! Filipino-American Lightning maxi here:

Pouch.ph is the first lightning wallet with Philippine fiat/banking rails so we're excited to be helping with arcade.city's traction here wherever we can. :)

Also note we're also working on adding USD/ACH with Prime Trust so stay tuned for a US launch in a few months. We love Strike.me but we want to help with lightning adoption in the US too :3

-- Ethan (Founder, Pouch.ph)

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iirc these guys started with Ethereum. Or maybe thats a different guys. Heres an old article

https://www.newsbtc.com/news/arcade-city-decentralized-disruption-ride-sharing-ethereum/

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That's what I remember. I wonder if users were negatively affected by the DAO split. I think they were live at the time. Maybe why they became bitcoiners.

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Yes, they have since realized their folly:

Read more about our pivot to #bitcoin.

Our previous ERC20 shitcoinery was a massive waste of time. It incentivized us to focus on speculative price action rather than product development. Never again.

https://arcade.city/bitcoin-only
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I used to do Uber eats to stack more sats now I can drive and earn sats DIRECTLY? Hmmmmm

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This is amazing!

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Some additional info and discussion on Arcade City can be found in another post, here on SN:

📺 Introducing Arcade City v6 ⚡
#34889
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGV290XlndI

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can pay sats or cuckbucks LMAO

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Top post of the day, two years ago today.

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