Domain Giant Namecheap To Accept Payments Via Bitcoin Lightning
Domain name giant Namecheap has set up Bitcoin lightning on its platform as a method of payment.Domain name giant Namecheap has set up Bitcoin lightning on its platform as a method of payment. The company was the first major domain registrar to accept Bitcoin from its customers in 2020.In response to a Twitter user request for Namecheap to accept payments via lightning, the firm's CEO, Richard Kirkendall, tweeted, "We have it set up already, just need to get it into production one of these days."Kirkendall also tweeted that Namecheap has already received "190,000 real commerce transactions....
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Namecheap, the domain registrar, has announced that it will now take bitcoin as a form of payment for its services. It also claims that it is the first major domain registrar to do so. This has come after a wave of popular demand for the cryptocurrency. Not only that, but also in response to popular demand, it will accept payment in bitcoin with "zero confirmations" (i.e. the transaction has not yet been verified in the global block chain) so as to provide an instant service to customers. It's a notable risk for Namecheap to accept zero-confirmation transactions. This means that they would....
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