Monero, along with Bitcoin, is a powerful tool for accepting payments for your products and services. Doing so in a sovereign way is incredibly important in order to preserve your freedom from government overreach. I have been trying to set up Monero support for my BTCPayServer ever since the Monero
One of the largest Bitcoin payment providers, BitPay, has been under fire from Bitcoiners for quite a while. The community called for a boycott, which was smartly used by developer Nicolas Dorier to his advantage. Nicolas has created an open-source and self-hosted BitPay-compatible payment gateway called BTCPayServer, which has been
Lightning Network is a system of smart contracts on top of the Bitcoin's blockchain. It aims to solve scalability, provides instant payments with zero double spend risk and cheap transactions. These properties enable new use cases such as decentralized exchange markets via cross-chain atomic swaps and more. However,
There has been a lot of talks lately on how this or that network is "the only truly untraceable cryptocurrency" (I won't link to it, use Google) and how this or that network will "dethrone" Monero and so on. Such claims are audacious at
Bitcoin is a pseudonymous cryptocurrency. Many users ignore this fact and don't exercise extra caution when making transactions. They reuse wallet addresses or simply use KYL/AML (Know Your Customer/Anti-money Laundering) verified coins purchased on centralized markets to buy "illegal" stuff on the Darknet. In