RE: HivePay Payments Is Back On The Hivelist Store!
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That's great and all, but having those smart contracts isn't going to do anything for us as far as in an e-commerce project.
As far as stablecoins, most commerce is done in the dollar anyway, no matter what people want to think in the crypto space, so stablecoins are really the best medium of exchange we have. Most if not all material purchases have to be done based on the dollar, and until that changes, it's what we would rather have for payment. Again, we have other options to pay with like Monero, Bitcoin, and other Web3 coins like ETH, BNB, MATIC, and SOL. So people have the option to pay in whichever of those currencies they want.
We have to accept only high liquidity coins though so we can easily swap into stablecoins for vendor payments and other overhead costs, so we don't want a bunch of tokens with a tiny amount of liquidity because we don't hold them or anything. We are built on Hive Engine and that is where all of the support is, so we haven't been paying attention to anything VSC is doing as it really doesn't do anything for us.
Just thinking out of the box. Automated escrows, data-based receits, transport tracking, local services, the list is endless. VSC just as an example project in Hive "ecosystem".
A decade working with p2p currencies and communities have taught something, cooperation is important. If the goal is just to be another market webpage, that is totally acceptable.
Yeah I get you on that. The problem is that we don't get enough support on Hive to do anymore development than we do, so we are not really worried about adding any more complications to the platform. If anything we are looking to build a different marketplace that is not tied to Hive like we are. The Hive community has gone downhill hard the last couple of years and it's been extremely difficult to get any traction. The community has spoken that they don't care about e-commerce as much as we would have hoped, so until things change around here, what you see on our platform is what you get.