BTCPay Server

Introduction

BTCPay Server is a free and open-source cryptocurrency payment processor which allows you to receive payments in Bitcoin and altcoins directly, with no fees, transaction cost or a middleman.

BTCPay is a non-custodial invoicing system which eliminates the involvement of a third-party. Payments with BTCPay go directly to your wallet, which increases the privacy and security. Your private keys are never uploaded to the server. There is no address re-use since each invoice generates a new address deriving from your xpubkey.

The software is built in C# and conforms to the invoice API of BitPay. It allows for your website to be easily migrated from BitPay and configured as a self-hosted payment processor.

You can run BTCPay as a self-hosted solution on your own server, or use a third-party host.

The self-hosted solution allows you not only to attach an unlimited number of stores and use the Lightning Network but also become the payment processor for others.

Thanks to the apps built on top of it, you can use BTCPay to receive donations or have an in-store POS system.

Features

Direct, P2P Bitcoin payments
Lightning Network support (LND and c-lightning)
Altcoin support
Complete control over private keys
Full compatibility with BitPay API (easy migration)
Enhanced privacy
SegWit support
Process payments for others
Payment buttons
Point of sale
No transaction fees (other than those for the crypto networks)
No processing fees
No middleman
No KYC

Supported Altcoins

In addition to Bitcoin, BTCPay supports the following cryptocurrencies:

BGold
Dash
Dogecoin
Feathercoin
Groestlcoin
Litecoin
Monacoin
Polis
UFO
Viacoin

Documentation

Please check out our complete documentation for more details.

You can also read the BTCPay Merchants Guide.

How to build

While the documentation advises to use docker-compose, you may want to build BTCPay yourself.

First install .NET Core SDK v2.1.4 (with patch version >= 402) as specified by Microsoft website.

On Powershell:

.\build.ps1

On linux:

./build.sh

How to run

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