Lightning payments

At long last, we are accepting payments through the Bitcoin Lightning network. This means instant transactions, lower fees and enhanced privacy compared to on-chain Bitcoin payments.

Bitcoin Lightning is a protocol that allows paying with regular Bitcoin in a cheaper and faster way. Transaction costs are on the order of cents and speeds are on the order of seconds.

Lightning also offers a significantly different privacy model than regular on-chain Bitcoin payments since lightning payments are not stored on the blockchain. Instead lightning payments are routed through a network called the lightning network which allows payments to be anonymized through onion routing, similar to how Tor works.

In order to make Bitcoin lightning payments you need to use a lightning compatible Bitcoin wallet. Then you can generate a lightning invoice on our website and put that into your wallet. The payment should not take longer than a couple of seconds.

We do not provide refunds for lightning but we do offer a 10% discount for any lightning purchase.

In case you want to open a channel to us

Just like with all of our other crypto currency payments we run our own lightning node using the lnd implementation. If you want to you can open your own channel to it in order to either pay for VPN time directly or route through it and reach the larger lightning network. Our lightning node’s address is 029ca6d8397617d1bbe42714613dce0f262aa4db67123431113a148f5467029a0b@lightning.mullvad.net

Note that you do not need to open a channel directly to us in order to pay. Routing through the network works just fine.