Bitcoin payment layer just got real — GoBTC Pay is non-custodial, instant, and open to merchants today. Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMiningn
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Mark Zalan discusses the launch of GoBTC Pay, a non-custodial Bitcoin payment solution aimed at improving merchant adoption of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin has been promised as a payment layer for 15 years, but merchants still don't use it. Transaction finality, custody concerns, and merchant UX have kept Bitcoin commerce stuck in theory. NON-CUSTODIAL BITCOIN PAYMENTS are now live, and GoMining's GoBTC Pay is bringing debit-card UX to actual Bitcoin settlement.n Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining, launches the GoBTC Pay Gen1 SDK and API — opening Bitcoin payments to merchants, wallets, and ecosystem partners across his top-10 mining operation serving 5 million users. Mark walks through how GoBTC Pay settles directly on Bitcoin with users keeping control of their private keys, why a 0.2% fee split between wallets and miners aligns everyone's incentives, and how the 15 EH/s private mempool powered by Stratum V2 gives merchants the reliability Bitcoin payment layers have promised but never delivered. From tokenized hashrate making mining accessible to retail, to payments bringing Bitcoin into everyday commerce, this is what a fully integrated Bitcoin ecosystem looks like.n You'll learn: - How GoBTC Pay achieves non-custodial Bitcoin settlement with merchant-friendly UX — and why previous attempts at Bitcoin commerce never broke…
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