Pay for offshore hosting with Bitcoin Lightning
Lightning-network Bitcoin — instant settlement, sub-cent fees, ideal for monthly invoices.
- Pseudonymous
- Lightning
- Confirms in < 30 sec
- Refunds in BTC-LN
- Confirmation
- < 30 sec
- Network fee
- < $0.01
- Min payment
- $1
- Subscriptions
- Yes
- Refundable
- Yes (in BTC-LN)
Why pay with Bitcoin Lightning
Lightning is the right rail for monthly hosting invoices. It settles in seconds rather than minutes, fees are typically under a cent regardless of invoice size, and it inherits Bitcoin's denomination and security model. Roughly 60% of our Bitcoin-paid orders under $200 now settle over Lightning, and that share keeps climbing as wallet support matures.
We run our own Lightning node behind BTCPay, with channels to several large public routing nodes and a pair of private channels to liquidity providers. Invoices are short-lived — 15 minutes from generation by default — to limit fee-rate exposure during volatile periods. If an invoice expires before payment, the order page generates a fresh one with a single click.
Lightning is structurally more private than on-chain for most threat models: route information is gossiped only between routing nodes, the sender is not directly observable to the recipient, and there is no public ledger trace of the payment. It is not perfect — sender-side wallet leaks (LSPs that log, custodial wallets, fingerprintable channel topology) can degrade privacy. Self-custodial Lightning wallets (Phoenix, Mutiny, Zeus on a self-hosted node) preserve the most privacy.
- Sub-cent fees regardless of invoice size
- Settles in seconds — typically under 10 seconds end-to-end
- Self-hosted node, channels to public routing peers
- Fresh invoice per order — no address reuse
- Refunds via Lightning supported — paid to a customer-provided LN invoice
How to pay with BTC-LN
- Step 1 / 5
Pick plan and location
Same checkout as Bitcoin. Pick the plan, jurisdiction, billing cycle, and SSH key at order placement.
- Step 2 / 5
Select Bitcoin Lightning
Choose BTC-LN at the payment step. BTCPay generates a BOLT-11 invoice scoped to the order with a 15-minute expiry.
- Step 3 / 5
Scan and pay
Scan the QR with Phoenix, Wallet of Satoshi, Mutiny, Zeus, Breez, or any LN-compatible wallet. Custodial wallets work but leak privacy.
- Step 4 / 5
Settles in seconds
Lightning payments confirm end-to-end in under 10 seconds. The invoice page transitions to 'paid' the moment routing completes.
- Step 5 / 5
Server provisioned immediately
KVM provisioning fires on payment receipt — no confirmation delay because Lightning settlement is final at the protocol level.
Technical specs at a glance
- Network
- Lightning
- Average confirmation
- < 30 sec
- Network fee
- < $0.01
- Minimum payment
- $1
- Subscriptions
- Yes
- Refunds
- Yes (in BTC-LN)
- Privacy tier
- PseudonymousAddresses aren't tied to identity by default, but the transaction graph is public.
What Bitcoin Lightning is great for
The workloads where customers most often pick BTC-LN as their payment rail.
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