Nicolas Dorier: Be Your Own Bank with BTCPay

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’ famous words towards the centralized services of BitPay that were the beginning of working on BTCPayServer.