GoMining Launches GoBTC Pay to Bring Native Instant Payments to Bitcoin
London, United Kingdom, May 8th, 2026, Chainwire
- GoBTC Pay is a protocol that lets consumers make native and instant payments on Bitcoin’s base layer.
- GoMining launches its own mining pool to prioritize GoBTC Pay transaction confirmation, targeting a 12-hour final on-chain settlement by the end of 2026.
- The launch marks a strategic expansion for GoMining, a platform with 5 million users. GoBTC Pay extends this ecosystem into everyday payments.
GoMining launches GoBTC Pay a Bitcoin payment protocol that delivers on what the 2008 whitepaper promised: peer-to-peer electronic payments. GoBTC Pay enables free and instant Bitcoin payments on the core Bitcoin layer. This makes it practical to use Bitcoin at the point of sale for everyday purchases. Payments are free for end-users and merchants pay a small acquiring fee that undercuts traditional card processing.
GoBTC Pay is designed as an open infrastructure. GoMining operates the reference implementation, but any wallet provider...
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