I genuinely tried to look for a legit way to make it an option for paying in a small online store without having to depend on paypal or a bank gateway.

Well transaction fees for any big coin are like many dollars per transaction. It's ridiculous. For smaller transaction fees you have to go to smaller coins that can disappear or lose half their value one day to the next.

And still, if we forget thar people wouls need to pay like a 14€ fee for 1€ transaction. They still have to go to a exange to change their money, and then I have to change it back, because very little things can be bought with crypto, less with cryptos that doesn't have ridiculous transaction fees.

Did I mention than transaction are not instantaneous either? Unless you pay big transaction fee or use some obscure coin that no one uses.

At the end, I ended up with paypal. I really wanted a way to be "independent" of big companies for transaction. But crypto is completely ruined (if it was ever functional that I doubt it). It's not a coin, they are just speculation and bets. With cybercrime and drug dealing being the only "real" uses it has.

[–] deadlyduplicate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Layer 2 networks like Arbitrum resolve the issue of high transaction fees and still be able to transact in ETH. I get there is hurdles compared with the simplicity of PayPal, but at least some of us prefer decentralized payment options where possible.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I tried to do the same for an online marketplace I wanted to create so I didn't have to fuck around with the legal stuff and the sellers could do whatever they wanted with the money and have them deal with legal when exchanging the crypto at an exchange. The closest project with some stability and something was the Blockchain Telos with their pinned Telos USD coin. It seemed promising, but I gave up.

[–] BobGnarley@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

Bitcoin Lightning Network would have solved your fee and speed problem. You can use BTC at many businesses