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 itโs really just privacy-friendly, regardless of anon status. Always feels weird to ask someone for their home address
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pugson
@pugson
thatโs 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 Iโm imagining is more like this: I want to gift you a candle. I donโt care where you live and weโre not close enough for me to ask for your address. I want to pay for the candle but itโs not shipped yet. This service sends you a link to redeem the gift and I get charged for shippin
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Fabiรกn 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 phishing๐จ
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Greg
@greg
Good point - trust would have to be earned over time from the service, otherwise itโs 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 ๐ค Seems relevant to @dstny
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Tom
@dstny
100%, trust is a massive element in it โ one thing weโre 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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Fabiรกn Uribe
@fabianuribe
Perhaps a network of cafes/bars/shops available for pickup would be a middle ground? There might be regulatory challenges tho and I could see it being abused for shady stuffโฆ ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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