Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced on Twitter that Strike has become an integrated partner with payments giant Fiserv, Clover’s parent company. Strike then launched a pilot integration with Clover to allow merchants to accept Bitcoin over the Lightning Network.
according to his announcement, the integration is not limited to Strike. Instead, merchants can accept lightning payments from any source — “From Cash App to nodes on Tor. Stated.
Mallers revealed that this rollout is part of a 90-day trial period. This includes measuring the speed and cost of facilitating transactions using the new integration. In addition, we will closely monitor the amount of business Lightning integration brings to merchants.
After the pilot, Strike will aim to enter the Clover app store, after which it will be directly integrated into Clover. This will enable Lightning by default at all his Clover merchants, putting it right next to card networks like Visa and MasterCard.
“Eventually, these payment giants want to see Lightning in action,” Mullers said on Twitter. “They want to feel it, they want to touch it, they want to see people use it. Now is the time to show that Lightning is the best payment method in the world.”
A trial period has begun and Clover merchants can contact Strike to enable cheaper and faster payments using the Bitcoin Lightning Network.