Hi! I'm Jan, the developer and main creator of HiveDebit as you know, and if you don't know me I'll say:
This is other really important and interesting update about what are we doing with @starkerz, because this is not a solo project, and you'll see on some posts photos of @starkerz talking about HiveDebit on @talentland and also some posts of people using HiveDebit Cards.
I had really interesting experience there, but most important, people really got an exciting experience using HiveDebit on Talent Land.
Beta needs more
As some of you guys know, hivedebit.com right now is in beta phase, it took me around 2 weeks to do a "stable" website that works with the Proof of Concept so anybody can test the simple version of this project, but it's not perfect 100% in his design and some other UX/UI stuff, but doesn't matter, proof of concept work and you can create cards, and make invoices/receipts and pay it with your hivedebit card, for example this receipt:
As you can see this is one of the Hive Debit Cards that I made for Talent Land, and also a random receipt, don't pay attention to it if you are not going to pay it.
We tried HiveDebit in many places around Guadalajara, and worked 100%, I'll show you some examples of it.
And also, we made a contest with 3 prizes for 3 random users that got a new account on Hive and a HiveDebit card:
First Place: 250USD, a HiveDebit card Special Edition.
Second Place: 150USD, a HiveDebit card Special Edition.
Third Place: 100USD, a HiveDebit card Special Edition.
And as you can see we gave with the prize, some metal covers with the Hive Logo so crazy guys like this two can't go with a Flipper Zero and hack your NFC Card (In the real practice you can't hahaha).
@vaultec and @jthomasewsky as frens
Video by: @alex-rourke
Video by: @manuphotos
This version is working really good and a good proof of this is that you can start using it, without getting a card from me, without me and without ID, KYC or other stupid stuff.
And you can see it here, @minigunner created a Hive Debit card and made a payment through it, without me and with the Spanish version, 2 times crazy.
MAX THROTTLE TO HIVEDEBIT
As everybody knows, this is a transparent project where I say how are we going and what are we doing, so I'm gonna tell you that the work of 7 weeks have been done in around 4.5 weeks.
- iPhone Beta Version would be possible in middle time.
- NFC Compatibility research Done.
- Research on alternative technologies for enabling NFC payments on iPhones, Done.
- Study of communication protocols between NFC cards and the Hive blockchain, Done.
- Evaluation of Web NFC technologies for iOS support, Done.
- Beta version Done.
I made a lot of things even adding the time that it took me to go Guadalajara, the Medellin event with @arlettemsalase.
But beta version is going to get improved, as I said, I'm trying to do everything that I can do to have a version for iPhone so everybody can use it, I already made some improvements that I said I would do as Currencies, so you don't need to make conversion if you don't use USD, right now you can only try with MXN (Mexican Peso) and COP (Colombian Peso), but I'll try to get more currencies so everybody can use it without going Google and search USD to MyCurrency.
A mini stuff that I'll say is to end this post, is that the Real Version of HiveDebit is more decentralized than Bitcoin Lightning Cards, and it took me a lot of time to guarantee decentralization through this card and with a secure model, but never trust me, always verify, you'll see that the real version will be 10 times better than the Beta one.
I'm gonna try to have this updates ASAP (iPhone update is gonna take some time so don't be worried if you don't see it in the next Update) but for me also is really important to hear what you think about this, do you hate it? you are paranoic about it? Let me know, I'm also paranoic about this, this is one of the things that I really enjoy, so I can guarantee that this thing was made for paranoics by a paranoic.
Thanks for reading.
Posdata: I think Beta version will be Called Denny's Version.