THELOGICALINDIAN - On Oct 29 a Bitcoin Cash backer acclimated the Cointext wallet to acquirement a croissant by argument bulletin at La Maison Navarre a bakery in Portsmouth New Hampshire The boutique uses the chargeless Anypay pointofsale appliance which connects to the Cointext arrangement to acquiesce bodies to accomplish purchases by SMS
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Buying a Croissant With Bitcoin Cash
and SMS Technology
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts can now acquirement items from brick-and-mortar shops appliance the Cointext wallet with bitcoin banknote (BCH) and SMS technology. The Anypay.global acquittal processor, a chargeless point-of-sale appliance for retail merchants, has chip Cointext payments aural its balance platform. If a user chooses to pay for a artefact with bitcoin cash, they will be alien to Anypay’s balance system, which displays a accounting BCH address, a QR code, and the adeptness to pay by argument appliance an SMS-based code. The Cointext wallet is a ablaze applicant for adaptable phones that allows users to accelerate BCH over accepted argument messaging casework after an internet connection.
At the La Maison Navarre bakery, an alone recorded a video assuming how simple it is to acquirement items application a argument bulletin accompanying with a BCH transaction. The chump texted “BUY” and a randomized cardinal and bound purchased a croissant in the 45-second clip. After watching what may accept been the aboriginal SMS brick-and-mortar acquirement application bitcoin banknote and SMS technology, news.Bitcoin.com absitively to analysis the Anypay point-of-sale (PoS) system.
Testing the Anypay Point-of-Sale System With Cointext
You can annals for the chargeless annual with alone an email abode and a countersign to actualize an Anypay PoS account. After the annual is created, you charge to “add an address.” You can accept from cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin cash, dash, litecoin, dogecoin, bitcoin core, zcash (non-shielded address), and a bread alleged horizon. I acclimated an abode from my Bitcoin.com Wallet and anchored a accessible abode to the Anypay PoS system. Anypay’s software uses the BCH Cashaddr abode architecture and a watch-only adjustment to log invoices and archive for admission and approachable transactions.
After abacus a accurate BCH address, the software allows you to actualize an invoice. I set the analysis balance to $0.25 cents account of BCH in the app’s ambassador panel. After that, an balance was created with the abode and a scannable QR code.
Sure enough, a little blooming box that allows Cointext payments popped up that read: “TEXT ‘BUY 88BZZ.’” After application the argument code, the balance was paid appealing abundant as bound as it would accept been application the added acquittal options provided by the Anypay invoice.
After the video from the bakery was appear online, individuals beyond amusing media and BCH-oriented forums said they were aflame to apprehend about actuality able to buy items with SMS technology and BCH. The Anypay arrangement is agnate to bitcoin banknote PoS solutions such as Mini-POS, Akari Pay, Cheddr.cash, and others appear this year. But the Cointext SMS affiliation adds addition aspect that the added bitcoin banknote PoS providers do not offer.
What do you anticipate about the Anypay.global PoS arrangement and the adeptness to acquirement appurtenances application bitcoin banknote and SMS technology? Let us apperceive what you anticipate about this accountable in the comments area below.
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