No More Coinbase and BitPay: Process Your Own Bitcoin Payments for $6 a Month
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No More Coinbase and BitPay: Process Your Own Bitcoin Payments for $6 a Month

THELOGICALINDIAN - Merchants can now use a Bitcoin abounding bulge to action their own payments via the BTCPay server for beneath 6 a ages with or after Lightning Network functionality

A guide to the band-aid from architect and Bitcoin developer Nicolas Dorier appear August 18 explains how merchants who appetite to acquire payments after cyberbanking formalities can now do so absolutely independently. A accessory issue, binding use of Microsoft Azure, has additionally been resolved, abbreviation amount and assurance on third parties.

“BTCPay Server can calmly be hosted with the bewitched one-click arrange to azure. However, artlessness appear with a cost: Around 65 USD per month,” Dorier begins.

A added aggravation lies in the actuality that Azure cannot be paid for with Bitcoin, arch to assertive merchants “having [a] cephalalgia [when paying] for their Azure annual because affidavit about their acclaim card.”

Despite actuality in actuality about a year, BTCPay alone afresh rose to prominence in the cryptocurrency apple back adept merchant CheapAir about accurate its about-face to the accessible antecedent aperture afterwards growing annoyance with Coinbase and bounce of adversary BitPay.

“Bitcoin itself is decentralized, but acquittal processors are not, and they use their adequate position to corruption its customers,” Dorier told Bitcoinist in an interview aftermost year.

Using an another VPS provider to Azure, such as Dorier’s Lithuania-based timevps, brings the amount of accepting Bitcoin affairs application a pruned abounding bulge bottomward from a minimum of $20 per ages to the agnate of about $6.

“…If tomorrow the US government bans Bitcoin, or that application Bitcoin becomes aback “offensive or unpatriotic” (which will appear back bits hit the fan with USD), and merchants are application Microsoft Azure, again lots of shops will end up closed. This would aching the ecosystem,” he added. 

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