for this, we used an existing POS that has a browser. if there is a browser, we can open hivedebit.com and pin it as a browser to the home page of the POS terminal. Tap to spend then works. So the onboarder would need to check with the business if they have browser tech in their POS. if not, we either need tp provide them with one, have them buy one, or show them how to use the tech on their mobile phone so that they can accept one tap payments to their phones.
development of hardware is not currently included in this plan. but it can be worked on once we have more of the tech in place as a new phase.
The hope is that where possible and where the POS has browser tech, we can integrate without having to bring in new hardware. however, some POS system are blocked and cannot access browsers.
OK thanks. I just asked Grok to do a deep search on this subject as I am not familiar with how common POS support for web browser access is.
Cutting down a long reply, it concluded that this is the current situation for support and associated market share:
Grok is definitely not always right, but this shows that less than 20% of POS systems potentially support this feature AMT - do you know of any others that were missed?
TBH, im not so worried about this. we have proof that our Trusted Guides on Hive are strong and are able and incentivised to roll this tech out in the real world and build quite significant cash flows through the businesses. The cards will likely be their main onboarding demo methods to show businesses how easy it is. many businesses will probably sell or give their clients pre-loaded or empty cards to make spending at their establishments super easy.
However, if the business already has an existing POS with browser, this tech can already be used there. many BTC POS systems are set up this way already, so it allows the tech to piggy back off of that infrastructure already (quite beautiful). worst case if we cant get the businesses to use their own browser or their existing browser based POS, then we are back the same position that V4V is at, and we can get businesses to use V4V, so there is no reason to worry there. even worse case than that, maybe we have to produce a few POS boxes ourselves, market the product and eventually sell them or stake HBD to cover the cost of distributing them for free.