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Sebastix | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Checking out with your Nostr keys could be a feature, but you still need some personal info as a merchant from your customer in some way...
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iefan 🕊️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I believe it should be a smooth transaction for now. Businesses or sellers can simply request a public key. You can send user order updates, and you can do much more in the future.
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bert | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 What I would like to see is a retractionary database control. Once product sent, auto delete all data except shipping product(s) and timestamp and order number. Then we can always find back the order in case something went wrong. That’s what we do now manually, but I would love to see the customer could actually control this database instead of me, being the merchant. I don’t want to be able to copy the data. Also I believe it could be interesting to start a shipping company that does give customers a way to just create the shipping label and the merchant can just do a drop off, of the requested product and never see any details of who ordered. Just got a QR code and had to drop the order at the drop off point where it’s scanned and finds its way. This would mean full privacy for online customers. Now people still need to trust me with their shipping data, email address and ip address. I’ve been in the ledger hack and can tell you I’m very much focused on doing this right. You still have to trust me though. In a decade from now plebs will still order with BitcoinBrabant.com i hope. The sovereign shop
gives me and my family the feeling that we help the bitcoin ecosystem a tiny bit. And every day I drive a package to the shipping shop I’m happy someone will be more sovereign after receiving our products. This is the highlight of my day in bitcoin. Knowing the foundation of bitcoin is built slowly and we are still early. In the meanwhile we’ve reached order number #1134. Of which are many tests and non paid orders, but we’ve shipped hundreds of sovereign devices. 
Miners, Signing Devices, backup plates, seal bags, thick seed qr/word paper (self developed). It’s been fun building this over the past years. Bear markets are for building clearly 😉 https://image.nostr.build/f314e0741914fbcbea83ffcf9c0fc1bf757976e68826ef59fe91dcafac65a4f8.jpg
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iefan 🕊️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I appreciate your vision. The system you're talking about requires a custom mechanism. Fortunately, if you want to maintain the anonymity of your customers, it's way easier to do so with Bitcoin and nostr than with any other technology.

For instance, I built this paywall service, Zapit.live, where you can put literally any piece of content, even a link, behind a Lightning paywall. You also get your own personal wallet, and you can still maintain your anonymity. No email required!

There are also some marketplaces built on top of Nostr, you should also look into it. That will make your work way easier.
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bert | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Which marketplaces?
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Sebastix | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The less you know the better it's for you and yours customers privacy. I agree!

The data (personal details for the shipment) you need could be send in a Nostr event containing a private message + a TTL (time to live) / self-destruct mechanism. I don't think this is possible (yet) or there is a NIP in draft describing this.
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Duncan Cary Palmer | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Here are some amazingly prescient ideas for ecommerce improvements from an online merchant. The benefits in privacy and liberation from state meddling are potentially profound.
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