Open channels to key nodes helping El Salvador's efforts

Posted over 2 years 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 2 years 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. 


Enigmafi

Enigmafi wrote over 2 years ago

@thesimplekid - same here, get error to Chivo.  Also, the two IBEX nodes are 5M SAT not 2M SAT.


CornKing wrote over 2 years ago

same here, can't connect to Chivo, seeing 5m for IBEX


WindwardMark

WindwardMark wrote over 2 years ago

I connected to IBEX and it was 5M min 


The Lorax wrote over 2 years ago

Chivo not allowing connections, still. 


The Lorax wrote over 2 years ago

And I don't want to support OpenNode... 1% fees are bullshit. 

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