I built an ecommerce company over 9 years ago, and I still work on it daily (somewhat like creating a job for myself). We have a great a team and a great product serving an important niche, but there are days (like the past 2 since I've been on Steemit, for example) where I feel like I'm trying to improve on the buggy whip as a Ford drives by... We'll see. Maybe I'll poke around a bit with the Python client and come up with some ideas other than a faster horse.
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FoxyCart looks great. Nice business you have.
Thank you! We'll be rebranding aspects of it as Foxy.io to focus on being more of a hypermedia API payment abstraction layer for more interesting hosted services (as opposed to just websites who want to sell stuff). I worked hard to get our merchants using bitcoin, but unfortunately very few jumped onboard. Maybe some day that will change.
I think there are good thoughts on this matter in the middle of Solving the Cryptocurrency Liquidation Problem section of Steem Whitepaper. Accepting a volatile currency introduces significant accounting overhead for merchants but eventually merchants should accept any currency if it increases their sales (assuming there's a way to deal with volatility). The number of bitcoin users grows 10 times each 2-3 years so yes, that is a question of time.
P.S. Seems like Steem discussion is limited to 6 levels as I'm not able to respond to your latest post so I'm replying to this one.
Well said. We integrate with Coinbase and BitPay to try and eleviate any volatility concerns but I think, ultimately, it comes down to not doing anything unless your customers are asking you for it. More unfamiliar payment options could lead to more support costs. Moral of the story: get out there and bug your favorite merchants until they accept bitcoin. :)