Another reason why Bitcoin isn't the best choice to be used as a currency.

The company don't want loss, so they don't want the price of their product/service equivalent in Bitcoin, they use payment processor to convert fiat price in Bitcoin.

On the other hand, customer want convenience and fast payment, they don't want to wait for few minutes if they have an another straightforward payment option.

If you read the tweet, it's due to OpenNode i.e. payment processor.

It can be technical issues and will be fixed. Users certainly feel panic with things, issues relate to their money and if I am in that situation, I would be panic too.

Bitcoin ATM or centralized exchanges can use services from payment processors and sometimes there are technical problems. These companies can have their ways to check problems, and identify payments from users and re proceed manually for users who got problems. They can get data from their machines and with support of camera records maybe.

1. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
2. Mcdonald's machine with OpenNode as a 3rd party payment processor

See the issue? 


Using a centralized system again, another issue!

el salvador had issues with LN in its first try a few years ago

many businesses/services and chivo moved away from LN as the back bone and instead used a CEX to bank peoples btc deposits and do internal database swaps of peoples balance on that cex(alphapoint) as the backbone of chivo

however certain entities are trying again to push for LN routed payments outside of the chivo system and again getting hit by the same bottlenecks as last time

both cases of el salv crypt payment failures are LN based, where the channel partners of LN whom host the 'inbound balance' and routing paths end up having too many payment events routing through but not enough locked balance to finalise/fulfill payment events

so again LN is not fit for purpose and they just wont learn
but to hide the fact that LN is crap they arrogantly buzzword the fault as a 'bitcoin break' even when users having faults never even use the bitcoin network, but instead using the LN network

Second layer "solutions"... we need scalability on the base layer.
If we're not using Bitcoin (LN is not BTC but a convulsed receipt network) then we could as well use Mastercard.

Bitcoin can still be a great alternative for people who would not be bothered to wait a few minutes for a Transaction to finish.  I think Bitcoin is still a community thing.  Where you, as a Business, support Bitcoin and decide to offer an option for other people like you who like Bitcoin too.  It is definitely not as reliable as Visa or Master Card for usual day to day Transactions, but then Cards have their own caveats too.

Bitcoin users who decide to pay at a fast food are very naive if they think Bitcoin is as fast and reliable as Visa to use and offers the same comfort level.  You get what you get, Bitcoin is so much more raw and offers a less comfortable but much more controllable option to Payments.

My opinion however.  Feel free to contradict.

Most of the McDonald's kiosk machines are like that with my experience. I guess that even if the country where that McDonald's branch is in if their kiosks are like, I'd really choose to pay with the cashier and counter instead.

Nothing beats that bad system in McDonald's or at least that's with my experience because several times I did want to pay using their typical payment processors and they're mostly in errors so I have to pay in cash.

I agree, from these problems, there will be more and more solutions to fix it.

bitcoin for small amounts was deemed ok for small amounts pre 2017. due to how a $3 burger was not worth re-orging a blockchain, however with things added to bitcoin like RBF it made bitcoin near impossible for recipients to want to accept zero confirm's because now tx's can be dropped, rejected via the sender redirecting value to different addresses via RBF whilst transactions are waiting.. this was the way that LN became promoted as the zeroconfirm payment method. then the way bitcoin devs changed the fee estimate and bump fee defaults were done to make small payments to become more costly than a mcdonalds burger, again done to promote LN

the whole premise of manipulating bitcoin so that people have to pay more with the delusion that it helps miners, was another mis judgement by devs pretending they were economics experts(their not), devs dont realise the CEX market price is what rewards mining pools via deflation. also whereby more transactions per block would create more revenue for miningpools as a total of the block reward bonus.

now we have it where people need to lock in value to a dodgy subnetwork and do it over multiple lumps(channels) for the HOPE(not100% success rate) that a payment will go through on the subnetwork.. thats even worse of an experience or strategy compared to people deciding to buy a giftcard for a value amount equivelant to a months worth of meals

Agreed. That's why McDonald's should accept Dogecoin as a kiosk option (still to slow for an at-the-counter option).

McDonald's could seriously help their branding by accepting $DOGE.

As for El Salvador, its a shame their populist president got conned by some Twitter influencers for the sake of pumping Bitcoin... An unfortunate situation. But at least they are providing lessons that LN-friendly businesses/payment processors can learn from.

FYI a much larger overwhelming number of people are using other centralized payment systems such as PayPal to make their payments that usage of centralized shittokens like tether is negligible in comparison.