Today ICE announced Bakkt, with big partners including Starbucks.
2/ Maria Smith, VP and Partnerships and Payment Strategy at Starbucks, who also happens to be the Financial Executive at @dragonchaingang is involved. Starbucks will provide seamless BTC to USD conversion to pay for items at Starbucks.
3/ What does Starbucks need to develop this in a decentralized scalable way? A scalable, hybrid private/public Blockchain solution with BTC smart contract and interchain capabilities.
5/5 If you wondered, @dragonchaingang carefully examined industry wide use cases prior to designing their Blockchain, to be sure they can cater every corner of the real world with Blockchain magic:
1/ Blockchain platforms are by far the best investment vehicle within crypto if you can manage to pick up their trail in an early stage. Examples are $ETH, $NEO (antshares), $STRAT etc. Some of these platforms multiplied their value over 300x in just years.
2/ Platforms now face the challenge of not becoming a monolithic infrastructure where each platform is a disconnected island in an ocean of platforms. Being able to connect between platforms, making Blockchains agnostic in a sense, has many advantages.
3/ In an inter connected Blockchain environment, Blockchains don't have to be competitors, but each Blockchain can provide services which they are best suited for. Bitcoin is the most secure and largest infrastructure Blockchain, but slow.