{"id":59791,"date":"2022-04-08T10:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T07:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59791"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:53:20","slug":"shopify-to-integrate-lightning-network-via-strike-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/shopify-to-integrate-lightning-network-via-strike-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopify to integrate Lightning Network via Strike partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strike CEO Jack Mallers presented several partnerships for a Lightning Network-based payments app operator that would enable Bitcoin integration into US retail networks, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/industry-events\/jack-mallers-adding-bitcoin-to-major-pos-networks\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the Bitcoin 2022 conference, he spoke about Strike&#8217;s collaboration with e-commerce giant Shopify, the POS-terminal provider NCR and the payments company Blackhawk Network.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mallers, the integration would cut banks from settlements. This would deliver savings on fees for merchants and privacy for customers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll be able to walk into a grocery store, Whole Foods, Chipotle, and, if you want to use a Lightning node, you simply do so. Any online merchant using Shopify can accept payments without the legacy card networks, receive them instantly, ultimately without intermediaries, without a 3% fee,&#8221; Mallers said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He added that he is working with policymakers, notably Senator Cynthia Lummis, to ensure the prospects for promoting the Bitcoin-based payment standard.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Strike <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/strike-adds-pay-me-in-bitcoin-salary-conversion-feature-for-us-users\">added<\/a> a feature to convert salaries into Bitcoin for US users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced several partnerships for a Lightning Network-based payments app operator that would enable Bitcoin integration into US retail networks, according to Bitcoin Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[325,1821,1804],"class_list":["post-59791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-lightning-network","tag-shopify","tag-strike"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59793,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59791\/revisions\/59793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}