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# BTCPay Server

## Introduction 

BTCPay Server is an Open Source payment processor conforms to the invoice API of Bitpay.
This allows easy migration of your code base to your own, self-hosted payment processor.

This solution is for you if:

* You currently use Bitpay as a payment processor but are worry 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 fee (we support Segwit)
* You want to become a payment processor yourself and offer BTCPay hosted solution to merchants
* You want to a way support other currency than those offered by Bitpay

## Where to start?

First we advise you to look our [youtube videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpG9WL6TJuoNfFVkaDMp9ug) to better understand if BTCPay fit your business.

You can then head out to the [documentation](https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc).

To setup your development environment so you can contribute to this project, go to [Local Development](https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc/blob/master/Local-Development.md).