With the motto “not everyone can run a server, but everyone can run an app,” the BTCPay Server team, an open source payment processor, confirmed that it is working on the development of a mobile application that allows running a La node. Lightning network. Through this mechanism, merchants have the possibility of receiving payments with bitcoin through Bitcoin's second layer network or from the main network, without having to resort to trusted third parties such as exchanges and without paying commissions.
As was announced during the BTCPay Day in Riga conference, held one day after Bitcoin Honeybadger 2023, the development of the mobile app is supported by Spiral, a company that finances open source projects focused on Bitcoin, and the LND team (Lightning Development Daemon), an implementation for running Lightning nodes on the Lightning network.
The announcement was made by Pavlenex, a developer who was the first person to receive a scholarship from Spiral and who is currently a product manager for BTCPay Server. Later, Andrew Camileri, another member of the BTCPay team, gave details about the application. Among these, he outlined that the app's point-of-sale feature will have a modular approach. Additionally, he noted that Bitcoin and Lightning wallets managed through the app will be unified in the user interface, and that people will be able to choose the Lightning Service Provider (LSP) to make the onboarding of users without technical experience easier. fluid.
BTCPay Server is a server that allows merchants to manage bitcoin payments. The BTCPay application focuses on physical merchants that accept BTC and offers a self-custody solution, through a tool that allows you to have a Lightning network server and a point of sale: “To scale Bitcoin effectively, Lightning must be easy to use and not have custody for family stores," they indicate.
