LitePay is a new payment solution that aims to bridge the gap between fiat currency and Litecoin.LitePay plans to use Litecoin’s core blockchain technology to create a borderless global payment network. The technology behind LitePay allows merchants to easily accept Litecoin as payments, both online and in-store.Digital currencies face several hurdles to widespread adoption. One major hurdle has been an effective way to readily spend digital currency for daily purchases. LitePay may be a solution to this problem.
Merchants can use LitePay’s retail and billing tools to accept Litecoin payments. The funds are then instantly converted into fiat currency and deposited into the merchant's bank via the platform. The instant conversion to fiat negates any risks incurred by the volatility of Litecoin’s price. This instant conversion might end up being the push some merchants, who were wary of the price fluctuations, need to adopt the digital currency.Merchants may also see LitePay as a better option than credit cards because it has lower fees than most credit card processing solutions. LitePay currently has a flat fee of 1% per transaction; most credit cards charge as much as 3% per transaction.People who own Litecoin can now spend it more readily too. LitePay users can use their Litecoin to load LitePay cards and then use it like a debit card.
Litecoin’s big brother, Bitcoin, was originally designed to be a payment solution. There have been numerous attempts to use Bitcoin as a payment solution such as Bitcoin ATMs, debit cards, and mobile wallets.However, Bitcoin’s scalability issues and rising fees thwarted attempts to become a payment solution. As demand on Bitcoin’s network rose so did its fees, which became too high to justify using Bitcoin for small transactions.In its current state, Bitcoin cannot handle the additional transactions that would occur if it was adopted for daily transactions. Although there are some proposed solutions to Bitcoin’s scalability issues, like the Lightning Network, none are fully implemented.Litecoin is a fork of Bitcoin, that was re-designed from the ground up to scale more readily. The fees associated with Litecoin transactions are considerably lower than Bitcoin’s fees. The lower fees associated with Litecoin make it a much more practical payment solution for the small transaction we frequently make daily. It was also designed to process a higher level of transactions per second, which makes it a better choice than Bitcoin.
Charlie Lee, the inventor of Litecoin, recently tweeted his pleasure that there were more Litecoin payment solutions on the horizon.https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/960035458343251968LitePal is another new Litecoin payment solution that aims to work like a digital currency version of PayPal. Although the project is still very new it is another signal that there is a movement towards using Litecoin as a payment solution.Vancouver-based CoinPayments is another payment solution that accepts many different digital currencies including Litecoin.New innovations like LitePay are seen as a positive step forward for those who believe that the blockchain will revolutionize our economy.Image credit: Litecoin logo
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