RE: Incentives For HBD to Become Desireable as a Payment Method
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The Latin American countries may have a better chance, but the problem is the overall ecosystem is SO SMALL that HBD is on virtually nobody's radar. It is not far from the 1000th position in marketcap and has an extremely low marketcap.
You may be able to onboard a shop or two, but it's going to be hard. In the US, you might as well count it out.
Hivelist has been accepting HBD for 4 years on their online store, and virtually nobody uses it. The last few orders were paid in fiat and few in Monero, and those orders were from customers that weren't not in the Hive ecosystem and came from Twitter referrals.
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I agree. The size of HBD is a big problem if we want to deal with bigger retailers or on advantageous conditions. And highly regulated countries like the USA, or those in Europe (and not only) are unlikely to sit back and allow this in their yards.
That's bad to hear about Hivelist. If we don't use HBD in online stores from our own backyard, will we do it elsewhere? Anyway, the point was to attract outsiders, but here's where the size of HBD stands in the way probably.
One thing is that anyone who went through the collapse of UST in the last cycle has PTSD when you mention an algorithmic stablecoin.
But yeah, the community has pretty shown me what they think about e-commerce and building real world use cases. Most only want a token to turn around and dump.
The HBD 20% savings plays a big role in this too. Keeps people saving instead of spending.
Yeah, it's hard to convince them of the opposite when they automatically associate algorithmic stablecoins with UST and its collapse.
An interest above the inflation rate reduces the velocity of a stablecoin. This is where people's interests diverge. Many want that APR, while others want HBD to be spent more often. There isn't enough HBD to have it both ways at the same time, I believe.