The Internet of Beer: Robotics startup taps Bitcoin to deliver automated beverage

Pubinno, a San Francisco-based exertion steadfast that creates the "Internet of Beer" with artificial intelligence, robotics and unreality computing platforms, has present integrated Bitcoin (BTC) outgo infrastructure into its system.

Pubinno accepted BTC payments utilizing the Lightning web astatine the #LightningHackdaysIST held from Feb. 25 to 27. By utilizing their Lightning Network-supporting wallets, participants could person their ain brew poured conscionable seconds aft completing the transaction by scanning a QR code.

According to Pubinno's Creative Director Volkan Dogan, the Smart Tap strategy was created successful 2016 and employs blockchain exertion to nexus the aboriginal of draught brew with the aboriginal of transactions. Cointelegraph had a accidental to chat with Dogan astir the astute pat system.

Dogan explained however blockchain exertion influenced his determination to utilize the Lightning Network for payments, stating that:

"We worked connected Lightning Network due to the fact that it is babelike upon the underlying exertion of blockchain. By utilizing existent Bitcoin/blockchain transactions and utilizing its autochthonal smart-contract scripting language, it is imaginable to make a unafraid web of participants which are capable to transact astatine precocious measurement and precocious velocity with debased state fees."

The Lightning Network was created successful 2015 arsenic a projected solution to the Bitcoin scalability problem. It allows for off-chain transactions betwixt nodes that are past settled connected the blockchain. This allows for an accrued fig of transactions to beryllium processed without expanding the load connected the blockchain, allowing for microtransactions and instant payments.

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According to Dogan, the "advantages of the Lightning network" let barroom owners to get paid successful seconds with small oregon nary commissions, and with the self-serve capableness of the astute pat system, they whitethorn prevention a batch of wealth connected labour costs.

When asked whether they mean to see different cryptocurrencies connected the astute pat strategy arsenic payment, Dogan replied that it volition beryllium based connected a fig of variables specified arsenic scalability, frequence of use, transaction outgo and speed. He added that:

"We volition find our absorption according to the adaptation of the manufacture and proceed to make our infrastructure connected a blockchain adaptive basis. We besides behaviour feasibility studies connected processing Pubinno tokens."

He said, "the satellite is successful a deep-rooted digitization signifier and the fastest improvement is shaped astir blockchain." Dogan referred to BTC arsenic the archetypal cryptocurrency that comes to mind, but helium besides stated that stablecoins would beryllium integrated into the outgo strategy successful the future.