BTCPay Server is an Open Source payment processor, written in C#, that 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 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
Please check out our complete documentation for more details.
You can also checkout The Merchants Guide to accepting Bitcoin directly with no intermediates through BTCPay.
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.
On Powershell:
.\build.ps1
On linux:
./build.sh
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
For more information see the documentation How to deploy a BTCPay server instance.