Traders can now use a fully configured node to process their payments through a BTCPay server for less than $ 6 per month - with or without hiring a Lightning network.
Get rid of Microsoft Azure
This guide, written by developer Nicholas Durer, published on 18 August, explains how traders who wish to accept payments without banking formalities can do so in a completely independent manner. It also suggested a solution to a minor problem, the mandatory use of Microsoft Azure, which would reduce cost and rely on third parties. He said:
"The BTCPay server can easily be hosted with a single click to Azure. However, this simplicity comes at a certain cost of about $ 65 per month. In comparison, you can reduce it to about US $ 20 per month by following this guide after initial synchronization. Where the cost of Azure is very high "
Other complications lie in the fact that Azure does not accept payment in the mint currency, which causes some problems for traders around their credit card.
Open source servers are the solution
Despite its presence about a year ago, BTCPay has only recently emerged in the world of digital currencies when a veteran trader publicly documented its transformation into an open source portal after growing dissatisfaction with the Coinbase platform and rejection by BitPay. Peter Pettkwent said in an interview last year that the currency itself is decentralized, but its payment processors are not. They use this convenient situation to abuse their clients.
The use of the alternative virtual server (VPS) in Azure also reduces the cost of accepting a full node transaction from a minimum of $ 20 per month to the equivalent of about $ 6.