Nicolas Dorier: Be Your Own Bank with BTCPay

Episode notes

Nicolas Dorier is a decentralized systems software developer and open-source advocate. He has been active in the Bitcoin community since 2014 and has contributed to several Bitcoin projects, including Bitcoin Core, before founding BTCPayServer, an open-source payment processor used by thousands of merchants globally. He is also the co-founder of METACO, a provider of security-critical infrastructure for financial institutions.

Topics:

Nicolas’ background as a Bitcoin and open-source advocate

Why he founded BTCPayserver

The features for merchants using BTCPay

BTCPay as a donation tool

Business model of BTCPay, paying developers

His learnings while developing BTCPay

Life and Bitcoin in Japan

Bitcoin replacing cash?

Streaming money with Sphinx chat and integration of podcasts

How to convert Bitcoin to Fiat without selling

Discreet log contracts

METACO working with central banks and altcoins

This is lies, my trust in you is broken, I will make you obsolete

— Nicolas Dorier (@NicolasDorier) August 18, 2017

“This is lies, my trust in you is broken, I will make you obsolete.” Nicolas’ famous words towards the centralized services of BitPay that were the beginning of working on BTCPayServer.