I have written before about the need to stabilize the Monero price to promote wider usage. My idea is to create a service like i mentioned in that post where a product would be listed with a stable price for a week at a time and reserves would be kept to keep the price stable while the spot price is below the stable price. I will not hide that you may pay more for the product if spot price is higher, but you would also pay less if the spot price was lower (to a minimum reserve anyway).

Would you be interested in such a service?

As an example, at the time of writing a 12oz bag of gratuitas coffee is 147.54mXMR where this service would have it at 154.23mXMR (+4.51%) until Monday when the price would update again.

Edit: an extremely crude example can be found at feder8.me. It is not an SSL site but it has nothing private anyway.

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[–] mister_monster@monero.town 6 points 9 months ago (11 children)

That's a bad idea. Imagine the monero price goes up. You'd get a cycle where nobody would buy stuff from a service like this. Then price is lower than the listed price, you get stuff cheaper than itst worth. What this does is move the volatility to product demand instead of currency exchange rate. It doesn't stabilize anything.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I do see your point, but my whole thought is that people want to see stable prices for things, which this would do. As far as people buying more when spot is below there would be reserves and a reserve limit where sales would be totally cut at that limit.

I would not like to pay $5 for a big mac today and tomorrow it costs $7 instead. That would be incredibly annoying. At least this way, you would know exactly what the price was.

[–] Genghis@monero.town 3 points 9 months ago

it needs organic stability and you're also comparing the stability with fiat.

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