The Bitfury Group has recently announced a partnership with crypto payment processing system Paytomat, working to bring the Lightning Network to Paytomat’s participating merchants.According to a recent Medium post made by LightningPeach, “Bitfury’s in-house specialized Lightning Network engineering team,” the Bitfury Group is pouring its resources into Paytomat’s wallet and vendor system, enabling “users and merchants on the Paytomat system to send and receive bitcoin payments over the Lightning Network almost instantly.” “Both Bitfury and Paytomat participated in the Blockchain Expo in Amsterdam in June, and, after meeting, we began discussing our potential partnership opportunities,” Pavel Prikhodko, the head of LightningPeach, told Bitcoin Magazine. The partnership between the two companies seems like a natural fit. Bitfury specializes in building blockchain hardware and tools (such as mining chips), and Paytomat has a large base of customers and merchants already lined up. Per the partnership, Bitfury will be incorporating Lightning directly into Paytomat’s platform. As Prikhodko described it, “Bitfury’s LightningPeach team integrated Lightning Network in Paytomat. Bitcoin Lightning payments are now built in to Paytomat’s merchant dashboard, allowing users to make instant and low-fee payments in Bitcoin.” The Lightning Network has generated a great deal of fame in the cryptocurrency space for its pr...
