Payments

Thor will connect to Bitrefill's node on the Lightning Network, allowing users to receive Lightning payments whether they have bitcoin loaded into their Lightning wallets or not.

Bitcoin payment processor OpenNode has announced a seed investment round of $1.25 million with venture capitalist Tim Draper and early-stage investment firm Draper Associates.

Decentralized payment processor BTCPayServer now offers wallet support for c-lightning users.

A new program to set up Lightning Network micropayments, tippin.me, has recently entered beta testing.

R3 has unveiled a new app on their international blockchain, a global payment platform that uses Ripple’s XRP as its initial base currency.

The Bitfury Group has recently announced a partnership with crypto payment processing system Paytomat, working to bring the Lightning Network to Paytomat’s participating merchants.

Blockchain Payroll Platform WorkChain.io has partnered with tokenization platform STASIS to enable euro-backed crypto paychecks for its European Union (EU) users with the EURS stablecoin.

This is not the first attempt by U.S. states to allow cryptocurrency to be used in tax payments, although it is slightly different and ultimately the most successful so far.

Bitcoin payment platform BitPay is now going to allow payments with the Paxos Standard token (PAX), which it calls “the fastest growing stablecoin and the highest trading volume of any U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin.”

“The price doesn’t matter so long as there are people who use bitcoin to translate money. Bitcoin will always be the best financial alternative.”