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.