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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: [ANN] Release of open source point of sale system (w/ video)
by
Steve
on 23/08/2011, 18:06:04 UTC
I hate to say this but this still suffers from all the issues that previous suggestions for point of sale stuff has, in that it takes a great deal of time comparatively to confirm the transaction is actually valid. People aren't going to wait around for a quarter of an hour after buying a stick of gum to wait for a transaction to verify.
People also aren't going to bother spending hours of their time or thousands of dollars trying to execute a successful double spend just to steal a pack of chewing gum.  Accepting without any confirmation in such a circumstance is probably lower risk than letting people pay with credit card.

This is a great step forward and nice video.  When the time is right, we'll want to integrate this (or something like this) with bit-pay.com.