Bitcoin mining company GoMining launches payment protocol GoBTC, with a 0.2% merchant fee challenging Visa and Mastercard
According to Forbes, Bitcoin mining company GoMining plans to launch GoBTC—a Bitcoin-native payment protocol built on its own block production—at the Consensus conference. The protocol enables instant user authorization and settlement on the Bitcoin mainnet within hours, charging merchants a fee of just 0.2%, which is an order of magnitude lower than Visa’s and Mastercard’s 1.5%–3.5% fees.