[Tagging] Bitcoin: Distinction of purchase through website and cash register/Point of sale

Anita Andersson cc0cool at gmx.com
Tue Aug 12 18:55:33 UTC 2014


In Sweden we got an electronics chain called Webhallen who accept 
Bitcoin as payment through their website and allows the customer to pick 
up the goods they purchase at any of the business's store locations. It 
does to my knowledge not accept purchase of goods with Bitcoin through 
their cash registers or Points of sale.

I would just tag each and all of those stores with payment:bitcoin=yes

Some in the Swedish osm community find it confusing to find out at 
CoinMap.org that a business accepts Bitcoin but does not accept it at 
the cash register/Point of sale. One in the Swedish osm community told 
me that he/she asked a question at a Webhallen store at Sveavägen 39 
where the personnel replied that they do not accept Bitcoin at the cash 
registers/Points of sale of that store.

More in the osm community want a way to tag that a store accepts payment 
in Bitcoin only through their website and not at a cash register/Point 
of sale, vice versa or any combination thereof.

One idea that got proposed was payment:online:bitcoin=yes/no + 
payment:offline:bitcoin=yes/no
where online=purchase through website and
where offline=cash register/Point of sale

Any ideas?



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