# Awesome Bitcoin Payment Processors

A curated list of awesome Bitcoin payment processors enabling merchants, businesses and nonprofits to accept Bitcoin payments.

Why are they awesome?

1. They are either immune to financial censorship or they don’t practice it.
2. They accept Bitcoin via native Bitcoin addresses and don’t require wallets to use the controversial payment protocol.
3. They don’t block payments by IPs/locations.

## Contents

- Self-Hosted Bitcoin Payment Processors
- Hosted Bitcoin Payment Processors
  - Non-Custodial
  - Custodial
- Backers 💝

## Self-Hosted Bitcoin Payment Processors

Self-Hosted payment processors run on your server and provide you with a full control over the entire payment process and funds. There’s no third-party involvement - that significantly increases the censorship-resistance, privacy, and security for you and your customers.

Processor | Fees | Lightning | Directly to Your Wallet | Conversion to Fiat | Requirements
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
BTCPay Server | No fees | Yes | Yes | Via Payment Forwarding and Exchange Integration | 2 GB RAM, 80 GB Storage, Docker
One Time Address | No fees | No | Yes | No | NodeJS
CryptoWoo | $34 - $99 per year | No | Yes | No | PHP 5.6+, Wordpress 4.3+, WooCommerce 3.0+
BitcartCC | No fees | Yes | Yes | No | 1 GB RAM, 10 GB Storage, Docker
LnMe | No fees | Yes | Yes | No | LND node
SatSale | No fees | Yes | Yes | Weakhands: swap to USDT on Liquid, no-KYC | Python. Bitcoin node, Lightning node & WooCommerce optional.
CypherpunkPay | No fees | No | Yes | No | Linux (1GB RAM)
Keagate | No fees | No | Yes | No | 1 GB RAM, Unix
LNURL Daemon | No fees | Yes | Yes | No | LND node

## Hosted Bitcoin Payment Processors

Hosted payment processors run on someone else’s server. This simplifies the initial setup process, but reduces the amount of control you have over the payment process.

### Non-Custodial

Processor | Fees | Lightning | Directly to Your Wallet | Conversion to Fiat | Requirements
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Blockonomics | 1% | No | Yes | Via Payment Forwarding | No
Bittery.io | No fees | Yes | Yes | Via Payment Forwarding and Exchange Integration | No
Payscrypt | No fees | No | Yes | No | No
Bitrequest | No fees | Yes | Yes | No | No
Zaprite | $25 per month | Yes | Yes | No | No

### Custodial

⚠ The following processors use their own wallets for receiving payments. They not only collect data about payments, they have full control over the funds.

Processor | Fees | Lightning | Directly to Your Wallet | Conversion to Fiat | Requirements
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Confirmo | 0.8% | Yes | No | Yes | Information about business / website. May require certain documents.
CoinGate | 1% (merchant) + some variable service fee (customer) | Yes | No | Yes | Requires a lot of information and business documents, officially translated in english.
CoinPayments | 0.5% | Yes | No | No | On withdrawal may require a number of forms of identification and will require settlement of any outstanding amounts.
GloBee | 1% ($10 min. invoice) | Yes | No | Via Luno and Uphold | Information about business / website. May require certain documents.
OpenNode | 1% | Yes | No | Yes | Requires KYC/KYB documents
Strike | 1% | Only | No | No | For companies, the name of a company and a physical address.
Coinremitter | 0.23% + 0.0001 | No | No | No | No
Utrust | 1% | No | No | Yes | Require certain documents.
NOWPayments | ≤0.5% | No | No | No | KYC/AML procedure applied to certain clients, wallet addresses and select assets.
COINQVEST | 0.5-1%, Free to try | No | No | Yes (USD, EUR, ARS, BRL, NGN) | Requires KYC verification.
ElenPAY | ≤1% | Yes | Yes | No (Soon) | Low KYC
Speed | 1% | Yes | No | No | No

## Backers 💝

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