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<\/span><\/p>\n May 8th, 2026 \u2013 London, United Kingdom<\/i><\/p>\n\n GoBTC Pay enables free and instant Bitcoin payments on the core Bitcoin layer. This makes it practical to use Bitcoin at the point of sale for everyday purchases. Payments are free for end-users and merchants pay a small acquiring fee that undercuts traditional card processing.<\/p>\n GoBTC Pay is designed as an open infrastructure. GoMining operates the reference implementation, but any wallet provider \u2014 from Ledger to Trust Wallet to MetaMask \u2014 can integrate the protocol to offer instant Bitcoin payments to their users.<\/p>\n Why this matters\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Bitcoin is the dominant cryptocurrency with a market cap above $1.5 trillion. Over 150 public companies hold BTC on their balance sheets. Spot Bitcoin ETFs, which didn\u2019t exist two years ago, now manage roughly $100 billion in assets across a dozen funds. The U.S. government holds approximately 328,000 BTC. But Bitcoin still can\u2019t process a retail transaction quickly and reliably.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Lightning Network, introduced in 2018 to solve this problem, took seven years to reach $1 billion in monthly volume<\/a> and its average transaction of $223<\/a> mostly reflects exchange-to-exchange flows, not someone paying for groceries. In the US, about 22% of adults own Bitcoin, yet there are only 2,300<\/a> U.S. businesses that accept Bitcoin directly, and the gap between how many people own Bitcoin and how many places accept it is widening.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first line of the Bitcoin whitepaper describes a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Bitcoin was designed to be money, not just an asset. That promise is still unfulfilled, and we intend to deliver on it,\u201d said Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining. \u201cWe already serve millions of users, and run data centers on three continents. All of this provides us a unique position to enable native Bitcoin payments with GoBTC Pay.\u201d<\/p>\n Mining-powered confirmation<\/strong><\/p>\n GoBTC Pay enables free and instant payments in Bitcoin, using GoMining\u2019s own mining infrastructure to confirm the transactions. It uses a 2-of-3 multi-signature architecture shared between the user, GoMining, and a regulated third-party custodian.\u00a0<\/p>\n GoMining serves 5 million users globally. The company has created a dedicated mining pool for processing GoBTC Pay transactions, aiming for a 12-hour on-chain settlement by the end of 2026. Where most payment companies depend on third-party pools for confirmation, GoMining mines the blocks itself.<\/p>\n The pool also serves GoMining\u2019s \u201cdigital miners\u201d \u2014 users who own tokenized hashrate through GoMining\u2019s app. A portion of GoBTC Pay transaction fees flows back to these miners as additional BTC yield: consumers pay with BTC, merchants earn BTC, miners earn a share of payment fees, and GoMining\u2019s pool processes the transactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Any wallet provider, whether hardware, software, or custodial, can connect to the GoBTC Pay network and enable instant Bitcoin payments for their users.<\/p>\n Bitcoin payments for Merchants\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n For merchants, GoBTC Pay is a Bitcoin-native acquiring network that undercuts every major card processor on cost. Its acquiring fee of 0.2% is substantially lower than traditional card processing, which range from 1.5% to 3.5%<\/a> in the US. On a $100 sale, the merchant keeps $99.80.<\/p>\n GoMining distributes the entire fee back into the ecosystem: half goes to the miners who confirm transactions, and half goes to the wallet provider that initiated the payment. GoMining retains nothing on third-party transactions to incentivize wallet integrations and accelerate adoption.<\/p>\n Merchants can receive BTC directly to their own wallet, or use GoMining\u2019s custodial merchant solution, which offers yield on their BTC balance \u2014 including during the settlement window \u2014 and an off-ramp to fiat. GoBTC Pay will ship with a dedicated PoS terminal, a web merchant dashboard, a developer SDK, and plugins for Shopify and WooCommerce in the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n The launch coincides with GoMining\u2019s major expansion in the United States. The company is building combined data centers for Bitcoin mining and AI workloads, with a target of securing 1 GW of compute capacity in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n GoMining presented a live demo of GoBTC Pay at Consensus Miami 2026 (May 5\u20137, Miami Beach Convention Center).<\/p>\n About GoMining<\/strong><\/p>\n GoMining is an all-in-one Bitcoin ecosystem that makes it simple and secure to mine, earn, and use Bitcoin every day. GoMining serves 5 million users and ranks among the top-10 Bitcoin miners by hashrate globally, with data centers in the U.S. and internationally. The company makes Bitcoin accessible through tokenized hashrate, daily BTC rewards, and an expanding suite of payment and earning products. For more information, please visit https:\/\/gomining.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n GoMining<\/strong> <\/p>\n Follow Us on X<\/a> Facebook<\/a> Telegram<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Check out the Latest Industry Announcements<\/a> <\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0 The post GoMining Launches GoBTC Pay to Bring Native Instant Payments to Bitcoin<\/a> appeared first on The Daily Hodl<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 8th, 2026 \u2013 London, United Kingdom GoMining launches GoBTC Pay a Bitcoin payment protocol that delivers on what the 2008 whitepaper promised: peer-to-peer electronic payments. GoBTC Pay is a protocol that lets consumers make native and instant payments on Bitcoin\u2019s base layer.\u00a0 GoMining launches its own mining pool to prioritize GoBTC Pay transaction confirmation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"yoast_head":"\n
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GoMining launches GoBTC<\/a> Pay a Bitcoin payment protocol that delivers on what the 2008 whitepaper promised: peer-to-peer electronic payments.<\/div>\n<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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