Google's cloud services platform has partnered with Voltage to expand payment solutions based on Bitcoin's Lightning Network globally.
Google Cloud released a recent statement reporting on its partnership with Voltage, a Lightning as a Service (LaaS) provider that is focused on facilitating and accelerating enterprise adoption of the Lightning Network to optimize payment systems and create more effective and efficient micropayment experiences. efficient solutions powered by the blockchain.
Driving enterprise adoption of the Lightning Network
The alliance between Google Cloud and Voltage will allow Google to provide its vast infrastructure to Voltage's enterprise customers so they can create and manage Bitcoin and Lightning Network nodes securely in a variety of locations around the world.
As noted by Google, their goal is for Voltage to enhance its ability to serve global customers from any geographic location, while driving crypto/blockchain industry technology and innovation in the payments sector.
Google Cloud also wants secure Lightning Network deployments in the cloud and ensure Voltage customer brands, companies and organizations the ability to run Bitcoin infrastructure alongside existing workloads.
With this alliance, Google's cloud services platform is leading the way in global cryptocurrency adoption.
Optimizing payments through the Lightning Network
Voltage offers its enterprise customers access to solutions powered by the Lightning Network, enabling real-time settlement of payments and microtransactions with near-zero commission rates, to scale payment systems, save costs, and deliver more secure payment experiences. , efficient and competitive.
Lightning Network is a network focused on the scalability of Bitcoin that allows transactions with this cryptocurrency to be carried out very quickly and economically, which has sparked interest in several companies and companies that want to take advantage of its advantages to offer more innovative payment solutions. This is the case of microstrategy, which launched its first business application based on the Lightning Network last month with the aim of encouraging the creation of new technological applications and, with it, the adoption of Bitcoin as a safe haven asset and as a means of exchange of value.
Other companies such as Strike and OpenNode are also implementing Lightning Network technology to facilitate payments, generate new business opportunities and make Bitcoin more accessible to everyone.
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