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Overpay.com

Buy anything with Zcash

$1,000
Total awarded
Blake
Builder
Tor NEAR Protocol Zcash No IP Logging

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The problem it solves

It’s too hard to buy things with Zcash.

Buy anything with ZEC using Overpay. It’s your personal shopper, a crypto-friendly one!

Tell it everything you want to buy. Give it some Zcash. Overpay will buy it for you, from any merchant in the USA. If the items are on Amazon, your order is fulfilled immediately.

I’m Blake and I’m fanatical about using crypto for payments.

Years ago I launched Silk Road 2.0. That was a mistake, I got arrested by the FBI and paid my price. Ten years later, I’m shocked that crypto still doesn’t have its de-facto marketplace.

In a future where everyone is paid in crypto, and everything can be purchased with crypto - we no longer need banks. Nor do we need centralized exchanges. That’s Satoshi’s dream: peer-to-peer payments.

I will continue building Overpay until we can all close our bank accounts. Fundraising: [email protected]

I’ve been wanting to build a (legal) marketplace for a long time. Thank you to the Zypherpunk sponsors and organizers for helping me prioritize finally writing code for this MVP!

Check out Overpay during this holiday shopping season, I’d love your feedback.

Source code: Github

Challenges we ran into

Developer productivity for Zcash needs a lot of work. We need to make it easy for any Web2 devs to jump in and launch a Zcash-accepting business in less than ten minutes. That’s better than what Stripe or anyone else can do!

Overpay’s vision is to start as a personal shopper, a “reverse” buyer’s market, onboarding vendors as our agents purchase items for our users. Then, we will flip the switch into being the crypto-native eBay.

We are improving Zcash developer experience along the way and will continue to open-source our work - because we believe that if your business accepts Zcash, you’ll be on Overpay.com.

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