GoMining is rolling out GoBTC today at Consensus Miami 2026, and the pitch is simple:
Free and instant Bitcoin payments, with final settlement still anchored to Bitcoin’s base layer.
That means paying for lunch, coffee, or a pair of shoes with Bitcoin could feel as normal as tapping a card.
The rollout comes right as GoMining pushes deeper into the US, where they’re building data centers for both Bitcoin mining and AI workloads.
They’re not playing around either – their target is to secure 1 gigawatt of compute capacity in 2026.
That’s entering power-plant territory.
Bitcoin is everywhere, except at checkout
Bitcoin has become really good at being an asset.
Big companies hold it, ETFs hold it, governments hold it, and it’s now a serious part of the global financial system.
But for something originally described as “peer-to-peer electronic cash,” there’s still one awkward problem:
Bitcoin still isn’t that easy to use as actual money.
That’s the gap GoMining is trying to close with GoBTC: making Bitcoin feel like something people can actually spend, not just buy, hold, and talk about.
GoMining CEO Mark Zalan made their mission clear:
“Bitcoin was designed to be money, not just an asset. That promise is still unfulfilled, and we intend to deliver on it.”
Bitcoin got huge. Bitcoin payments didn’t.
The Lightning Network was supposed to help solve this, but it still hasn’t really become the everyday way people pay with Bitcoin in stores.
Lightning took seven years to reach $1 billion in monthly volume – and unfortunately, its average transaction size of $223 looks more likely to be exchange movements rather than someone buying lunch.
The strange thing is, Bitcoin already won the hard part.
It went from internet money for cypherpunks to a trillion-dollar asset held by institutions, public companies, ETF issuers, and governments:
- It’s worth more than $1.5 trillion,
- more than 150 public companies hold $BTC,
- spot Bitcoin ETFs manage around $100 billion, and
- the U.S. government holds hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin.
But spending it still feels weirdly early.
In the US, around 22% of adults own Bitcoin, yet only about 2,300 businesses accept Bitcoin directly.
So, lots of people own $BTC…but hardly anywhere wants it at checkout.
It became a treasury asset before it became a payment method.
So what is GoBTC?
GoBTC is GoMining’s attempt to make Bitcoin payments work the way people expect payments to work: fast, cheap, and simple.
At the point of sale, the customer pays in $BTC, the merchant receives $BTC, and the payment feels instant. The final settlement happens later on Bitcoin’s base layer.
That last part is important.
GoBTC isn’t trying to move Bitcoin onto some random new chain and call it innovation.
It’s trying to keep payments Bitcoin-native while making the experience feel much closer to a normal card or mobile payment.
And this isn’t just for GoMining’s own app.
Other wallets can plug into GoBTC too, including Ledger, Trust Wallet, MetaMask, hardware wallets, software wallets, and custodial platforms.
That’s crucial, because Bitcoin payments only work if people can spend from the wallets they already use.
The mining part is the real twist
GoMining’s big difference is that it already mines Bitcoin, in a major way.
It runs around 15 EH/s of Bitcoin mining power across data centers on three continents, serves 5 million users, and is building a dedicated mining pool for GoBTC transactions.
So it’s not just making a Bitcoin payment app – it’s using its own mining setup to help process payments behind the scenes.
But that doesn’t mean people wait at checkout for the Bitcoin network to process everything. We all know that would be a little slow.
Instead, GoBTC will feel instant for customers and merchants, while the final Bitcoin settlement happens later in the background. They’re aiming for 12-hour settlement by the end of 2026.
There’s also a loop for GoMining’s digital miners – users who own tokenized mining power through the GoMining app. Part of GoBTC transaction fees flow back to them as extra $BTC yield.
Here’s how it looks all together:
- Customers pay in Bitcoin
- Merchants receive Bitcoin
- GoMining helps process the payment
- Digital miners can earn a share of the fees
GoBTC also uses a 2-of-3 multisig setup between the user, GoMining, and a regulated third-party custodian, so that no single party controls the funds alone.
Why merchants might care
For merchants, the cleanest selling point is fees. In the US, card processing often costs around 1.5% to 3.5%.
GoBTC’s acquiring fee is just 0.2% – meaning that on a $100 sale, the merchant keeps $99.80.
That fee gets pushed back into the ecosystem:
Half goes to miners confirming transactions, and half goes to the wallet provider that started the payment.
GoMining says it keeps nothing on third-party transactions.
That gives everyone a reason to care – merchants get lower fees, wallets get revenue, miners get extra yield, and users get a faster way to spend $BTC.
Merchant tools to boost adoption
GoMining says GoBTC will roll out a dedicated point-of-sale (POS) terminal, merchant dashboard, developer SDK, and plugins for Shopify and WooCommerce in the coming months.
That matters because merchants don’t always want crypto. They want easy setup, lower fees, clean reporting, and fewer headaches.
Merchants can receive $BTC directly to their own wallet, or use GoMining’s custodial merchant solution, which includes yield on $BTC balances (including during the settlement window) plus a fiat off-ramp.
That flexibility matters because some merchants want to accept $BTC, but still need fiat to pay rent, suppliers, staff, and taxes.
About GoMining
GoMining is building an all-in-one Bitcoin ecosystem for people who want to mine, earn, and use $BTC without running a mining rig in their garage.
The company serves 5 million users and ranks among the world’s top 10 Bitcoin miners by hashrate, with data centers in the U.S. and internationally.
Its main product lets users access tokenized Bitcoin mining power, earn daily $BTC rewards, and tap into a growing set of Bitcoin payment and earning tools.
Learn more at gomining.com.