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The most disruptive financial technology since the 1950s
If your business has anything to do with payments, you may feel like things are always changing. Visual Capitalist has an excellent visual of disruption in payments. But if you look closely, really the two major disruptions are in the 1950-70s when debit and credit cards became mainstream, and the 90s, when payments came online.

No real disruption has happened in payments since credit cards and online payments. Source: Visual Capitalist
Most “disruption” in “fintech” is really just different renditions of old financial technologies being globalized, digitized, or re-imagined in different user experiences.
But real disruption means bringing down costs for businesses and consumers through demonetization and democratization - as shown in Diamandis’ 6 D’s of disruptive tech. And that disruptive tech is also deceptive before it becomes mainstream.
That disruptive financial technology is already here: Bitcoin. It’s deceptive because by now almost everyone has heard of it, but few understand its implications, especially for payments (Neutronpay is here to bring more attention to these implications).
For starters, here’s the secret few know: Bitcoin can already handle instant and cost-effective payments at scale, globally - because of the Lightning Network, a technology built on Bitcoin. The Lightning Network inherits its security and reliability features from Bitcoin (100% uptime for 10 straight years with zero hacks since inception in 2009) while enabling 4 million+ transactions per second at ultra-low-cost (1000x cheaper than Visa and MasterCard).
It’s open-source technology, so it can be integrated into existing systems for interoperability between different countries, currencies, apps, and banking systems - if companies choose to leverage it.
In short, Bitcoin and the Lightning Network enable real-time, low-cost settlement between any person, on any app, in any currency, anywhere in the world.
Whether we like it or not, disruptive technology eventually upends old systems, and it becomes increasingly expensive to catch up with competition.
In this case, time is of the essence. This technology runs on scarce resources - bitcoin, time, and reputation, and requires considerable know-how to get it running. While your organization can start researching it and experimenting with it, Neutronpay provides the infrastructure for you to launch a product out-of-the-box to leverage this technology: for global inbound and outbound payments.
Right now, you can leverage Neutronpay’s Lightning Network infrastructure while it is still a bargain.
Neutronpay believes it will become increasingly expensive to upgrade to this technology, as the world catches on. So we’d like to invite you to learn more about it and how we can help you future-proof your business while getting a ton of features that Lightning and Neutronpay will continue to add.
Feel free to contact us to learn more.
Join Us in Shaping the Future of Payments
Reach out to Neutronpay to future-proof your business through one integration with Bitcoin, USD stablecoins & Lightning Network for instant and cost-effective global payments:
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