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Merchants connected the BitPay level tin present person payments from much than 100 Lightning-enabled wallets – CashApp and Strike among them – said the institution successful a statement.
The move, said the company, volition let some merchants and customers to implicit speedy, low-cost and scalable Bitcoin transactions
BitPay co-founder Tony Gallippi: “BitPay’s integration with the Lightning Network offers customers much prime and merchants much ways to beryllium paid leveraging blockchain technology.”
The Bitcoin 2022 league is taking spot this week successful Miami, and the Lightning Network has been the large communicative truthful far. Yesterday, Lightning Labs announced $70 cardinal successful funding to bring the Taproot-powered “Taro” protocol to its platform.
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Michael Bellusci is CoinDesk's crypto payments reporter.
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