CoinCorner Released A Lightning NFC Card For Bitcoin

• CoinCorner has released The Bolt Card, an NFC-enabled Lightning card.
• Similar to a Visa, users would conscionable pat their paper connected a Lightning-enabled POS to walk bitcoin.
• CoinCorner and BTCPay Server gateways are supported with aggregate vendors and much to come.

CoinCorner, a person successful bitcoin and Lightning Network services, has announced The Bolt Card – a contactless, near-field-communication (NFC) paper powered by Lightning – via a property merchandise sent to Bitcoin Magazine.

The Bolt Card allows users to simply pat immoderate Lightning-enabled point-of-sale (POS) creating an astir instantaneous transaction processed done the Lightning Network successful seconds. The bequest outgo infrastructure strategy plays nary relation successful immoderate of the processing. The process is akin to the pat relation of a Visa oregon Mastercard, without the colony delays, processing fees, oregon centralized entities.

“Making in-person payments with Bitcoin and Lightning is inactive not arsenic businesslike and user-friendly arsenic we request it to beryllium for the wide audience. It inactive involves unlocking a phone, opening an app, scanning a QR codification and past making the transaction,” said CoinCorner CEO, Danny Scott.

“This is simply a backwards measurement erstwhile it comes to idiosyncratic acquisition successful examination to what we're utilized to contiguous for in-person payments,” Scott continued.

At launch, The Bolt Card is compatible with Lightning and LNURL protocols portion supporting CoinCorner and BTCPay Server gateways and volition soon beryllium compatible with IBEX Mercado, LNBits, and FastBitcoins.

“Innovation to thrust Bitcoin adoption is what we bash astatine CoinCorner. We're gathering existent products for the existent satellite and yes, we mean the satellite - each 7.7 cardinal of us,” Scott explained. “We person much large plans ahead, truthful support watching passim 2022, the opening of the aboriginal is present - bring connected hyperbitcoinization!”