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🌟 A curated list of awesome Bitcoin payment processors and stories from merchants using them.

Awesome Bitcoin Payment Processors

Awesome Bitcoin Payment Processors Awesome

A list of awesome Bitcoin payment processors and stories from merchants using them. Why are they awesome?

  1. They are either protected against financial censorship or they don't practice it.
  2. They process native Bitcoin transactions and don't require wallets to use the controversial payment protocol.
  3. They don't block payments by IPs/locations.

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Self-Hosted Payment Processors

Self-Hosted payment processors run on your server and provide you with a full control over the entire payment process and funds. There's no third-party involvement - that significantly increases the censorship-resistance, privacy, and security for you and your customers.

Processor Fees Lightning Directly to Your Wallet Conversion to Fiat Requirements
BTCPay Server No fees Yes Yes Via Payment Forwarding and Exchange Integration 2 GB RAM, 80 GB Storage, Docker
One Time Address No fees No Yes No NodeJS
CryptoWoo $34 - $99 per year No Yes No PHP 5.6+, Wordpress 4.3+, WooCommerce 3.0+
BitcartCC No fees Yes Yes No 1 GB RAM, 10 GB Storage, Docker
LnMe No fees Yes Yes No LND node

Hosted Payment Processors

Hosted payment processors run on someone else's server. This simplifies the initial setup process, but reduces the amount of control you have over the payment process.

Non-Custodial

Processor Fees Lightning Directly to Your Wallet Conversion to Fiat Requirements
Blockonomics 1% No Yes Via Payment Forwarding No
Bittery.io No fees Yes Yes Via Payment Forwarding and Exchange Integration No
Payscrypt No fees No Yes No No

Custodial

⚠ The following processors use their own wallets for receiving payments. They not only collect data about payments, they have full control over the funds.

Processor Fees Lightning Directly to Your Wallet Conversion to Fiat Requirements
Confirmo 0.8% No No Yes Information about business / website. May require certain documents.
CoinGate 1% Yes No Yes Require certain documents.
CoinPayments 0.5% Yes No Yes On withdrawal may require a number of forms of identification and will require settlement of any outstanding amounts.
GloBee 1% or ($30 - $300)/mo Yes No Via Luno and Uphold Information about business / website. May require certain documents.
OpenNode 1% Yes No Yes May require to verify identity. Also may require to verify details or sources of funds regarding received payments.
Strike 1% Only No No For companies, the name of a company and a physical address.
Coinremitter 0.23% No No No No
Utrust 1% No No Yes Require certain documents.
NOWPayments ≀0.5% No No No KYC/AML procedure applied to certain clients, wallet addresses and select assets.

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