btcpayserver/README.md

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# BTCPay Server

## Introduction 

BTCPay Server is an Open Source payment processor, written in C#, that conforms to the invoice API of [Bitpay](https://bitpay.com/).
This allows easy migration of your code base to your own, self-hosted payment processor.

This solution is for you if:

* You are currently using Bitpay as a payment processor but are worried about their commitment to Bitcoin in the future
* You want to be in control of your own funds
* Bitpay compliance team decided to reject your application
* You want lower fees (we support Segwit)
* You want to become a payment processor yourself and offer a BTCPay hosted solution to merchants
* You want a way to support currencies other than those offered by Bitpay

## Documentation

Please check out our [complete documentation](https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc) for more details.

You can also checkout [The Merchants Guide to accepting Bitcoin directly with no intermediates through BTCPay](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/81h1oy/the_merchants_guide_to_accepting_bitcoin_directly/).

## How to build

While the documentation advise using docker-compose, you may want to build yourself outside of development purpose.

First install .NET Core SDK 2.1 as specified by [Microsoft website](https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/dotnet-core).

On Powershell:
```
.\build.ps1
```

On linux:
```
./build.sh
```

## How to run

Use the `run` scripts to run BTCPayServer, this example show how to print the available command line arguments of BTCPayServer.

On Powershell:
```
.\run.ps1 --help
```

On linux:
```
./run.sh --help
```

## Other dependencies

For more information see the documentation [How to deploy a BTCPay server instance](https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc/blob/master/Deployment.md).