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21 sats \ 9 replies \ @The_Daniel 2 Apr \ on: Boltz AMA ⚛️🔁 AMA

What are you doing to address the speed of swaps? In real-world testing I've seen a Lightning <> Liquid swap take around 30 seconds, in some cases longer. This is a major friction point for retail. Tap-to-pay customers and merchants are expecting a near-instant payment confirmation, and when they have to sit there awkwardly waiting for a payment to be accepted, it can cause anxiety and disillusionment.

80 sats \ 0 replies \ @boltz OP 2 Apr

100%. We feel the same as we use Boltz-powered wallets ourselves as daily drivers. We recently did some investigation with Bull Bitcoin and turns out much of the delay is on client side. So we are working with implementations to get these down. There is no technical reason why a Boltz Liquid swap for a merchant payment shouldn't complete end to end in sth like 5 seconds end to end.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 2 Apr

How do you use this as a merchant?

Can I accept LN payments on a website and have Boltz seamlessly convert it to an on-chain payment?

100 sats \ 5 replies \ @boltz OP 2 Apr

Absolutely, we got a BTCPay plugin that does exactly that. Read more about it here: https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/launching-the-boltz-btcpay-plugin (ignore the "Beta", it's a stable product by now).

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 3 Apr

Excellent news.

Thanks for sharing. I think this solves an issue I have had with receiving payments via BTC pay server for a LONG time.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 9 Apr

So, I gave this a closer look and I think my biggest issue is running BTCPay server.

Is there any chance that this can somehow be integrated with ZapRite or made into a Wordpress plugin so I can just offer lightning payments at checkout and receive all payments into my on-chain wallet?

131 sats \ 2 replies \ @boltz OP 18 Apr

Is there any chance that this can somehow be integrated with ZapRite or made into a Wordpress plugin so I can just offer lightning payments at checkout and receive all payments into my on-chain wallet?

We should resume our zaprite integration talk @john

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 18 Apr

Please do.

What I need more than anything is the ability to accept lightning on a Wordpress WooCommerce site. BTCPay Server requires a bit more technical expertise than the average user has. If ZapRite + Boltz could solve this problem for me and bitcoiners around the world, I would gladly pay the $25/month for their service.

AFAICT, Boltz is the best tool out there for a simple submarine swap into on-chain sats with a simple UI.

How can we integrate @boltz into @zaprite, @john? I think that is a piece of magic the bitcoin space is missing.