Greg
@greg
I feel like a service that made anon-friendly gifting easy could do well. I've come across a few specific online shops that offer pre-paid orders where the recipient enters their address later and it's great. They all seem to be US-only though and offer a limited set of items
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Greg
@greg
On 2nd thought it’s really just privacy-friendly, regardless of anon status. Always feels weird to ask someone for their home address
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pugson
@pugson
that’s why a lot of people have PO Boxes. maybe starting a physical anon PO box business paid with crypto is the way
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Greg
@greg
PO boxes are good. The flow I’m imagining is more like this: I want to gift you a candle. I don’t care where you live and we’re not close enough for me to ask for your address. I want to pay for the candle but it’s not shipped yet. This service sends you a link to redeem the gift and I get charged for shippin
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Fabián Uribe
@fabianuribe
I recently went through this. Had to share my address with someone (not close) that wanted to send a gift. It did feel awkward and I hesitated. But in the end I can assure you that I would have not clicked a link and provided my LatLong to any non-household shipping company service. It would fire my phishing🚨
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Greg
@greg
Good point - trust would have to be earned over time from the service, otherwise it’s the same as giving your address to the gift sender. Curious if a good middle ground comes to mind? Or maybe it is just a PO box 🤔 Seems relevant to @dstny
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Tom
@dstny
100%, trust is a massive element in it — one thing we’re working on is handling data as little as possible. Obviously everything is compliant and we keep everything encrypted, but we do have to place the order Currently exploring ZKPs for it, but integrating those with permissionless commerce is going to take a wh
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Tom
@dstny
One element to hopefully increase trust in the early days though is that we have a *very, VERY* long list of pick-up spots for packages everywhere in the US (beta US only) So you can choose whether you’d like to enter your address, or pick it up from a local spot — I used to get everything from UPS! cc @fabianuribe
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