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okTurtles / group-income

A decentralized and private (end-to-end encrypted) financial safety net for you and your friends.
https://groupincome.org
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Payment option: Zcash #762

Open taoeffect opened 5 years ago

taoeffect commented 5 years ago

Problem

Bitcoin has many advantages, the biggest on is Lightning Network, which can scale up to arbitrary amounts, but has some disadvantages, especially when it comes to privacy. For some users this might be a deal-breaker.

Solution

Zcash might be an interesting payment option to support, especially if it's done via a light-wallet.

sandrina-p commented 5 years ago

A similar argument can be used to support other methods outside of the cryptocurrency world:

Problem Cryptocurrency has many advantages, the biggest on is privacy, but has some disadvantages, especially when it comes to ease of use and popularity. For some users, this might be a deal-breaker. Solution: Paypal or Strype might be an interesting payment option to support.

taoeffect commented 5 years ago

Yes @sandrina-p, feel free to take charge and create the PayPal payment option issue. Let's leave this issue for Zcash-related discussion.

sandrina-p commented 5 years ago

@taoeffect Done at #770