Questions tagged [face-to-face-payment]

Collects questions about paying in meat-space: Physical stores, hotels, restaurants, and trading in person.

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How would a restaurant accept Bitcoin?

How would a customer pay either the whole bill, or just the tip in Bitcoin? What technology is best suited for this? (pay by barcode) Must the waiter have an iPhone wallet as well? How would the restaurant associate payments to customers?
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Does a vendor have to wait 10 minutes before a transaction is confirmed?

I understand that a Bitcoin transaction, by design, will get one confirmation after an average of 10 minutes. Does that mean that a vendor that accepts Bitcoins will have to wait 10 minutes for a transaction to confirm? Let's say I am a sandwich…