We run IVPN, a privacy-focused VPN service. We are Bitcoiners and motivated to contribute to the development of the ecosystem and adopt/trial new tools as merchants.
Our full time focus is not on Bitcoin however, so we probably miss useful developments - for customers and/or for us as merchants.
Done so far over the course of several years:
-> Accept Bitcoin with no intermediaries using BTCPay
-> Donate to BTCPay annually
-> Accept Lightning payments for our base service, running our own node
-> Attend Bitcoin conferences to give out vouchers and gather feedback
-> Built IVPN Light as an experiment for short-term VPN access with Lightning payments - #259328
What we considered and explored, but have not yet concluded:
-> Start or join a Fedimint federation - multiple issues with this as regulars here probably know, main one we see is companies and well-known actors in the space who could provide the necessary "anti-rug" trust don't want to take the risks for very little/no clear upside
-> Hourly/daily and recurring subscriptions paid with Lightning - this is still something we would want to see but ran into integration issues and hiccups (no particular fault of external parties, to be clear)
What we are looking at/excited by now?
-> Setting up a bip 353 username would make sense for customer repeat payments, but we don't use any of the wallets currently supporting it
-> BOLT12 improvements and possibilities look great overall, not likely to replace our BTCPay payment flow with a different implementation at this point
Anything else worth looking into? Even if it's in an experiment stage and needs test merchants.