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BTCPay Server: Optimizing Merchant Bitcoin Adoption - Blockstream Talk #32

Episode Summary

Welcome back to Blockstream Talk. Today, we're speaking with Pavlenex and Andrew from BTCPay Server, a self hosted open-source payment processor, that supports free, private, and censorship resistant payments for online and real world Bitcoin transactions. Recently, BTCPay server was used at the Baltic Honeybadger conference to facilitate Bitcoin payments with merchants at the event. Interestingly, many of these merchants were relatively new to Bitcoin. In this conversation, we talked about how BTCPay Server offsets Bitcoin's volatility, a key consideration for retail payment applications, how they managed to get merchants comfortable with accepting Bitcoin, the feedback they received, and how projects like this put us a step closer to establishing a circular Bitcoin economy. If you find this podcast interesting don't forget to subscribe and share it with your network.

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02:00 Introduction to BTCPay Server

02:43 BTCPay Server and Baltic Honeybadger

04:26 Utilizing SideShift and Prism plugins on BTCPay Server 09:53 How merchants deal with Bitcoin volatility

13:35 Scaling Lightning payments custodial vs non-custodial

20:55 Onboarding merchants to Bitcoin with BTCPay Server

23:46 Bitcoin POS systems used at Baltic Honeybadger