The first live purchase of a hardcover general fiction book for #Lightning payment at @Whitepaper Books was a glowing success. It was a test purchase made by me, but it's all the same. Shopify store, Bitcoin-only payments, connected to the inventory of one of the world's largest book distributors, with shipping fulfilled by the same. image Only two books in the inventory at the moment; I'll be generating the full selection of many thousands of books (including a pretty solid economics section) over the coming days and will post an update from the @Whitepaper Books npub when all the lights are green.
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....things are moving forward.... initial phone call went well. would this really be the internet's first general interest (I'm talking hundreds of thousands of titles) online book store that takes lightning payments?! that seems absurd! View quoted note →
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I believe it's US-only for now. I'll check with the distributor but I'm fairly certain. ...now if only there were some highly inventive decentralized, private shipping and fulfillment providers running on #catallax ...
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frphank 3 months ago
Don't buy any books there now. The price of any book will go down over time or so @vinney...axkl says so if you hold off for another 6 months or a year you might get it at half price even.
How do you facilitate your BTC payments? BTCPay Server? I'm looking for a way to accept bitcoin via shopify that doesn't involve endless and mindless chats with some Serbian guy who barely speaks English and has no clue how his shopify app works.