Tor, without privacy Why we can’t claim privacy for BTCPay Server even if TOR is supported We received lot’s of demand to make BTCPay Server work with TOR. It turns out that I was opposed to it for a simple reason: Having a false sense of privacy is more dangerous than having no privacy and knowing about it. Now, BTCPay Server is plugging…

I regularly pay freelancers with bitcoin. When we agree on the price in fiat, due to volatility, the numbers never add up. I have to pay again, or they have to refund me. If we agree on the amount a few days in advance, someone is always at financial or…

This proof of concept article shows how to run BTCPay Server (full Bitcoin and Lightning node) with WooCommerce on a single VPS for around $4/month. The goal is to showcase the cheapest possible way you can have a small self-sovereign e-store and earn Bitcoin by selling products or services. Please…

At BTCPay, we love eliminating intermediaries. Our core belief is that everyone deserves the right to have total control over their finances and that trusted third-parties are security holes. We build open-source tools for self-sovereign individuals and businesses. Today, we’re introducing a brand-new tool integrated into our self-hosted payment-processor. …

If we’d had to describe the past year in a single word that would be — wild. What a wild year my friends! — At the time of the year when the Slack channels are awfully silent, Twitter drama on hodl, and GitHub notifications don’t exist, on the behalf of the entire BTCPay community, I would like to thank you for the support and wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. …

This post is about the content of my talk during Advancing Bitcoin in London, the 7th - 8th February, 2019. Balancing flexibility and ease of use There is always an inherent conflict between adding flexibility and having an easy, coherent user experience which minimizes the amount of knowledge required by the user. BTCPay Server tries to…

Today, we’re pushing an update for LND implementation in BTCPay to the 0.5.1 version. However, for a minority of users this update can go wrong and could potentially leave a portion of users with the LND on-chain wallet empty, even if it has funds. …

… in less than a minute, for less than $10/month — You can deploy a self-hosted BTCPay Server (Full Bitcoin Node + Lightning Network LND) from a cheap, straightforward and customizable web-interface in just a few clicks. This is a joint effort of BTCPay community and LunaNode. You can now print BTCPay faster than fiat. …

…without credit card UPDATE: THIS ARTICLE IS OBSOLETE THANKS TO THE NEW ONE CLICK DEPLOY ON LUNANODE, WHICH MAKE THE INSTALL EASIER. Please follow this article for hosting on LunaNode instead. If you are interested to see how to install manually on another VPS, you can continue to read. This…