THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoincom afresh chatted with Christoph Hering of Blockpay Hering is an administrator and the cofounder of Bitshares Munich He shares with us his eyes for Blockpay a new Point of Sale belvedere that allows merchants to acquire a advanced array of cryptocurrencies at aught amount The arrangement will additionally accept added appearance such as adherence credibility that may attract bodies to use cryptocurrency for accustomed transactions
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Blockpay: ‘Digital Payments For Free’
Bitcoin.com (BC): Can you acquaint our readers what BlockPay is?
Christoph Hering (CH): BlockPay enables merchants to acquire one or added agenda currencies at zero cost. It’s an easy, fast and cost-efficient Point-of-Sale arrangement that supports all of the best accepted agenda currencies (like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Steem, Smartcoins (bitUSD, bitCNY, bitEUR, bitSilver), etc.) additional adherence credibility and allowance rewards cards. It is analytic the aegis and business risks through avant-garde Blockchain technology and helps businesses about the apple to acquire these agenda payments at aught cost.
BlockPay is a abundant apparatus for Bitcoin and crypto users too because it gives them the adventitious to use their adapted bill in any store, automat machine, restaurant or addition merchant about the world. Wait no added to pay your coffee with crypto fast, bargain and (soon) in absolute anonymity. BlockPay has already added an added band of aloofness for Bitcoin users, mixed, crosschain and cool fast.
BlockPay is accessible as a chargeless Standalone app, or Integrated (ie: Odoo, SAP, etc.) with merchants’ absolute Point-of-Sale systems and alive globally in 44 languages.
BlockPay is chain all of the Blockchain communities and gives crypto users the different adventitious to alike use alien currencies like Dogecoin in their circadian life.
BC: Do you anticipate BlockPay could advice accumulate cryptocurrencies calm with merchant solutions?
CH: BlockPay is the aboriginal Point-of-Sale arrangement in the apple that supports all of the arch agenda currencies in one simple business solution. We are actual assured that BlockPay will accumulate cryptocurrencies with merchant solutions because we apparent best of the merchant’s afire pains like fraud, fees, bread volatility, allotment the appropriate coin, exchanges accepting hacked, and chargebacks from the start.
We abstruse that best merchants do not affliction if their chump uses Litecoin, Peercoin, Bitcoin or Dash…and they accept no time to apprentice about them either. They aloof appetite to get paid fast, able and with the everyman fees accessible – Simply BlockPay.
BC: How does BlockPay abutment cryptocurrency payments with aught cost?
CH: We anticipation about the best action how we could advance a new Blockchain-based Point-of-Sale band-aid to approved businesses after actuality the 10th guy allurement to integrate. Access to the acquittal systems is like an accessible affection operation, complicated and afterlife serious. That is why we absitively to action BlockPay at aught amount to merchants.
With this new approach, we accept had abundant success accepting the “first bottom in the door” and signing up new business ally on a account basis. We alone all merchant fees and answerable a baby collapsed arrangement fee of 0.5% to the customer instead.
That BlockPay fee works like a mining fee that covers software updates, approaching Integrations and development of added cryptocurrencies with BlockPay. We additionally assignment abutting with our business ally so that they pay it advanced and accommodate specific banknote back, appropriate discounts and added benefit affairs to agenda bill users. Some ability anticipate charging the chump is unfair, but how abundant are you accommodating to pay so that you can use your admired bread at McDonalds, Starbucks or Walmart?
BC: How does the belvedere assignment with Loyalty Points?
CH: BlockPay is affiliated to the decentralized agenda asset barter Bitshares, which allows us to accomplish adherence point systems on the fly. We action our business ally action brand adherence systems, for generating, distributing and managing benefit points, allowance cards and advertisement codes beyond several platforms.
The admirable affair is that every agenda bill user can acquire adherence credibility aback he purchases items at a BlockPay enabled merchant. You buy your advantage in bitcoin, and BlockPay sends you benefit credibility back, all accurate with the BlockPay eReceipts.
Together with our BlockPay Ambassadors, we accept developed guidelines and acquirements abstracts for our business partners, teaching them how to set up their own adherence credibility programs, appearance them how to accomplish advertisement codes and how to action blockchain based allowance cards. Since they are all agenda tokens, managed by a Blockchain wallet, all allowances of the Blockchain administer for these credibility too.
In conclusion, BlockPay provides a full-service PoS band-aid that rewards crypto users to pay agenda and accord merchants the appropriate accoutrement to accolade their best loyal barter for free.
BC: Can you acquaint our readers about the Echo wallet?
CH: Echo is a abutting bearing amusing messenger, with peer-to-peer encrypted messaging; absolutely decentralizing all of your messaging, audio/video conversations, and wallet operations through IPFS and the Graphene Blockchain to assure your abstracts and privacy. Echo is a able WhatsApp/Wechat and Paypal amalgam that will change the way how we all use agenda currencies forever.
What is alike added agitative about Echo is the business strategy. Following the success of Wechat and Steem, Echo will be a able amusing agent for the non-Blockchain mainstream. We are acid out all ambagious Blockchain aspects starting with a beginning new interface, accessible payments, and a simple automatic Brainkey advancement mechanism.
With Echo, all clandestine keys are stored locally, and the user has the absolute ascendancy over his funds. Combined with encrypted and decentralized babble messages, Echo is a abundant apparatus to assure your aloofness and banking freedom.
BC: What will the pre-ICO entail?
CH: The accessible auction began on August 23rd, with a appropriate pre-sale aeon starting on August 20th. Details and appraisement are as follows.
Interested parties can participate at BlockPay.ch or on CCEDK.com afterwards August 23rd. This final amount implies a bazaar assets of all BlockPay tokens at about $30 million.
BC: How will you admeasure the crowdfunding funds?
CH: We are application best of the funds for added development, marketing, and acknowledged costs. We accept accomplished assorted adaptable Wallets, BlockPay “S,” BlockPay for Odoo, and accepting accessible to launch. The abutting accomplish are abacus new features, currencies, a accessible API, a iOS adaptation and abundant more.
The Pre-ICO crowdfunding funds are accepting the operation for the abutting 24 months and acquiesce us to account above business partnerships with arch POS software providers, OEM, and merchants.
BC: Can you explain how you are alive with CCEDK?
CH: CCEDK provides abundant ICO casework for Blockchain companies like us. We were attractive into all the abstruse details, business strategies, algid storage, etc. and absitively that we charge an accomplished accomplice for a acknowledged Crowdfunding. CCEDK is the best accomplice for us back they action an all-in-one attack and crowdfunding kit, whatever their needs – including escrow services, authorization gateway, badge and asset conception and issuance, distribution, integration, marketing, pre-launch alertness and the ICO itself.
In conclusion, BlockPay is carrying all the content, logos and vision, and CCEDK is administration the absolute ICO. ICO´s will authorize themselves as the new Crowdfunding standards… and if you anticipate about it, adopting six abstracts from a all-around army is absolutely exceptional of for approved startups who advertise 20-40% disinterestedness for the aforementioned deal.
BC: What’s the all-embracing mission with BlockPay?
CH: BlockPay is now rolling out the agenda acquittal basement of the future. It is our mission to abridge adaptable payments by magnitudes, save time with peer-to-peer payments, and abate or annihilate all fees.
Businesses about the apple can now accessible a Blockchain annual in 3 abnormal or less, install the chargeless app or module, acquaint BlockPay and alpha accepting one or added agenda currencies at aught cost. Faster and safer than cash, it’s addition aisle to profits.
At BlockPay, our eyes is to use agenda currencies and assets in our accustomed lives. Our business abstraction supports this eyes by alms a advanced ambit of simple and defended accoutrement that acquiesce us to administer our new agenda money alike simpler than cash. Together we can body a added secure, added clandestine and added able banking arrangement for our abutting bearing of agenda money.
Christoph Hering is the CEO and co-founder of BlockPay. The Munich-based fintech aggregation is associated with Bitshares technology and the Danish-based cryptocurrency barter CCEDK. Hering is additionally an organizer for the Entrepreneurship Mastermind Group (EMMG) which has account meetups in the centre of Munich. Thank you for speaking with us Christoph and giving our readers a glimpse of your new project.
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