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Setup BTCPay server in Azure

BTCPay Server is a self-hosted, open-source cryptocurrency payment processor. It’s secure, private, censorship-resistant and free.

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Create a Resource group in Azure. I create this in West Us region.

Choose the template from the provided link and should take straight to your Azure subscription-

Enter the valid Vm Size and the supported crypto payment.

Select the Network – Mainnet, TestNet or regtest

Select the Ubuntu version. You may select the latest

Resources in Azure

This should create following resources in Azure in the selected resource group-

Navigate to BTCPayServerPublicIP resource. This should show the dns name.

This is your BTC pay admin portal.

Register Admin user

First time when you access the Btc Pay server should ask you to register a user. This user will be a owner.

Login to BTC pay server

Login with the newly created user

You will be asked to configure the lightining network and create a wallet.

Configuring the wallet and lightning network will follow in next blog along with integration with integration with commerce system such as Order Cloud.

Stay tuned to know how to configure this which should ulitmately sync the nodes as shown in below screen.

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Bitcoin FAQs

How much Satoshi is 1 Bitcoin?

One Hundred Million Satoshi(Sats) is 1 Bitcoin

100000000 Satoshi = 1 Bitcoin

Satoshi to Bitcoin Conversion

SatoshiBitcoin
1 Satoshi (One)(1/100,000,000th)0.00000001 Bitcoin
10 Satoshi (Ten)0.00000010 Bitcoin
100 Satoshi (One Hundred)0.00000100 Bitcoin
1,000 Satoshi (One Thousand)0.00001000 Bitcoin
10,000 Satoshi (Ten Thousand)0.00010000 Bitcoin
100,000 Satoshi ( One Hundred Thousand)0.00100000 Bitcoin
1,000,000 Satoshi ( One Million)0.01000000 Bitcoin
10,000,000 Satoshi (Ten Million)0.10000000 Bitcoin
100,000,000 Satoshi (One Hundred Million)1.00000000 Bitcoin

How to start daemon in background?

To run Bitcoin in background as a process, start the bitcoind with daemon option.

bitcoind -daemon

Popular blockchain explorers-

Bitcoin Block Explorer

BlockCypher Explorer

blockhain.info

Bitpay Insight

mempool space

In these explorer you can search by transaction hash, address, block number and block hash

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