Ask HN: Practically accepting cryptocurrency for businesses without middlemen?

• BTCPay Server

  354 6,061 9.7 C#

  Accept Bitcoin payments. Free, open-source & self-hosted, Bitcoin payment processor.

  

For best experience, be sure to accept Bitcoin with Lightning Network. I'm not sure about industry standard, but BTCPay and OpenNode seem to be the most popular ones.

https://btcpayserver.org

• Breez Mobile Client

  234 562 9.1 Dart

  Lightning Network mobile client

  

Yes, it works. Try Breez wallet for example https://breez.technology and spend on https://yalls.org

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• electrum

  602 7,147 9.9 Python

  Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

  

I used https://electrum.org/ for accepting btc payments and it worked fine.

The bigger issues I had that I am skeptical any self-hosted options have is protecting your wallets from being poisoned by 'black' bitcoin. Coinbase (and maybe others?) keeps a blacklist of banned wallets (stolen or associated with crime or gambling[0]). If a customer pays you from a black address, you may end up poisoning your entire crypto wallet and get flagged when you try to cash out.

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/onlinegambling/comments/kpel7x/so_i...

• kasisto

  5 157 0.0 JavaScript

  A Monero Point of Sale payment system

There is Kasisto which uses Monero.

https://github.com/amiuhle/kasisto

> Kasisto is a Point of Sale payment system to accept the cryptocurrency Monero. The only requirement is an internet connection, there are no third parties involved.

> To be fast (confirmation within seconds), Kasisto accepts unconfirmed transactions.

If you're not using a middleman, then I think it would be wise to use a private-by-default currency so that others cannot see your financials.

• 0xBTCpay

  1 7 0.0 Ruby

  Webshop-agnostic 0xBitcoin payment backend

• nano

  73 61 0.0 JavaScript

  ⚠️ Moved ⚠️ (by formsend)

  

New and interesting stripe-like service for accepting Nano: https://github.com/formsend/nano.to

• hub20

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BTCPayServer is very good, but it can not accept payments in the Ethereum network. If you want to accept stabletokens (which seems to be the case since you don't want to necessarily hold crypto as an investment, so stable tokens can help you to avoid volatility), you will certainly want to be able to accept ERC20 tokens. I'd recommend you take a look at Hub20 [0], which I've been working for a while and it aims to be the Ethereum analog to BTCPayServer. Currently Hub20 is also integrating with Raiden Network[1], which works in a similar way to BTC's Lightning (but again has the advantage that it can work with any erc20 token, so you can transact with stable tokens if you wish)

Hub20 is self-hosted, so you control all the keys. I am also working on a checkout system[2] so that people can accept payments from their site in a similar way to Stripe.

I've been working to turn Hub20 into my full-time project recently, I'm always on the Matrix room [3] for any kind of support. I'm also open to consulting in the domain.

[0] https://hub20.io

[1] https://raiden.network

[2] https://gitlab.com/mushroomlabs/hub20/checkout20

[3] https://matrix.to/#/#hub20:communick.com

• InfluxDB

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• light-client

  59 33 0.0 TypeScript

  The Raiden Light Client

  

BTCPayServer is very good, but it can not accept payments in the Ethereum network. If you want to accept stabletokens (which seems to be the case since you don't want to necessarily hold crypto as an investment, so stable tokens can help you to avoid volatility), you will certainly want to be able to accept ERC20 tokens. I'd recommend you take a look at Hub20 [0], which I've been working for a while and it aims to be the Ethereum analog to BTCPayServer. Currently Hub20 is also integrating with Raiden Network[1], which works in a similar way to BTC's Lightning (but again has the advantage that it can work with any erc20 token, so you can transact with stable tokens if you wish)

Hub20 is self-hosted, so you control all the keys. I am also working on a checkout system[2] so that people can accept payments from their site in a similar way to Stripe.

I've been working to turn Hub20 into my full-time project recently, I'm always on the Matrix room [3] for any kind of support. I'm also open to consulting in the domain.

[0] https://hub20.io

[1] https://raiden.network

[2] https://gitlab.com/mushroomlabs/hub20/checkout20

[3] https://matrix.to/#/#hub20:communick.com

• matrix.to

  251 861 4.4 JavaScript

  A simple stateless privacy-protecting URL redirecting service for Matrix

  

BTCPayServer is very good, but it can not accept payments in the Ethereum network. If you want to accept stabletokens (which seems to be the case since you don't want to necessarily hold crypto as an investment, so stable tokens can help you to avoid volatility), you will certainly want to be able to accept ERC20 tokens. I'd recommend you take a look at Hub20 [0], which I've been working for a while and it aims to be the Ethereum analog to BTCPayServer. Currently Hub20 is also integrating with Raiden Network[1], which works in a similar way to BTC's Lightning (but again has the advantage that it can work with any erc20 token, so you can transact with stable tokens if you wish)

Hub20 is self-hosted, so you control all the keys. I am also working on a checkout system[2] so that people can accept payments from their site in a similar way to Stripe.

I've been working to turn Hub20 into my full-time project recently, I'm always on the Matrix room [3] for any kind of support. I'm also open to consulting in the domain.

[0] https://hub20.io

[1] https://raiden.network

[2] https://gitlab.com/mushroomlabs/hub20/checkout20

[3] https://matrix.to/#/#hub20:communick.com

• tilt

  3 1 0.0 Python

  Tilt - Cryptocurrency Payments Platform (by inc)

I provide a service at https://tilt.cash that lets you accept crypto payments directly into a private wallet.

• pipeline-ui

  2 30 0.0 HTML

  PIPELINE Design System

I would recommend something like Algorand for receiving payments. Stable network (zero fork), fast settlement times, and inherent stabilization features. Circle has a full API for receiving USDC payments on top of Algorand here:

https://www.circle.com/en/usdc-multichain/algorand

Which can of course all be swapped across various chains. Probably the cleanest and fastest crypto API gateway right now.

On the Algorand side there's a React toolkit for developing the ability to receive/send:

https://github.com/headline-design/pipeline-ui

https://github.com/headline-design/algo-pay

• algo-pay

  5 16 3.2 JavaScript

I would recommend something like Algorand for receiving payments. Stable network (zero fork), fast settlement times, and inherent stabilization features. Circle has a full API for receiving USDC payments on top of Algorand here:

https://www.circle.com/en/usdc-multichain/algorand

Which can of course all be swapped across various chains. Probably the cleanest and fastest crypto API gateway right now.

On the Algorand side there's a React toolkit for developing the ability to receive/send:

https://github.com/headline-design/pipeline-ui

https://github.com/headline-design/algo-pay

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