Open channels to key nodes helping El Salvador's efforts
Posted over 1 year ago by LN+
IBEX Mercado, a major payment processor in El Salvador wrote on Twitter:
We are happy to announce that we have onboarded dozens of merchants with hundreds of store locations in El Salvador to be ready to accept LN/BTC payments. We would greatly appreciate some inbound liquidity to help us with the #hyperbitcoinization of the region.
Here are their nodes if you want to open to them (minimum 2M SAT):
OpenNode is a global payment processor that helps companies like McDonald's process their payments. Their nodes:
Official Chivo wallet's node:
As I come across other key players, I will add them to this post.
6 Comments
thesimplekid wrote over 1 year ago
Anyone else having an issue connecting to the Chivo node? Can connect to other nodes fine but an issue with that one SOCKS server failure.
kcoinLND wrote over 1 year ago
@thesimplekid - same here, get error to Chivo. Also, the two IBEX nodes are 5M SAT not 2M SAT.
CornKing wrote over 1 year ago
same here, can't connect to Chivo, seeing 5m for IBEX
WindwardMark wrote over 1 year ago
I connected to IBEX and it was 5M min
The Lorax wrote over 1 year ago
Chivo not allowing connections, still.
The Lorax wrote over 1 year ago
And I don't want to support OpenNode... 1% fees are bullshit.
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