GoMining launches instant Bitcoin checkout via miner pool

GoMining announced the GoBTC Pay Gen1 SDK and API on June 19, providing merchants, wallets and developers a direct integration for Bitcoin checkout routed through the company’s miner-run pool. Payments remain in BTC at the point of sale while acceptance and settlement are handled by GoMining’s mining infrastructure.

The SDK and API avoid the Lightning Network, wrapped tokens, sidechains and forced fiat conversion at checkout. The product materials describe payments as confirmed instantly at the point of sale and settling later on the Bitcoin blockchain.

GoMining’s public information lists no direct user fees and an initial merchant fee of 0.2%. That fee is split: half goes to miners in the GoBTC pool and half goes to the wallet provider that initiated the payment.

Under the described flow, a customer’s transaction is broadcast to a dedicated GoMining pool that prioritizes those transactions for inclusion in blocks. Merchants receive near-instant confirmation to complete a sale while final on-chain settlement follows once the pool mines the transactions into blocks. The company targets an average settlement window of about 12 hours, and notes actual times will vary with block production and pool performance.

Custody for payments is presented as a 2-of-3 multisig setup involving the user, GoMining as a co-signer, and an independent recovery custodian. GoMining states it cannot move funds unilaterally under that arrangement. The identity of the recovery custodian and detailed recovery and outage procedures have not been disclosed.

GoMining plans an initial rollout with up to 10 merchants and ecosystem partners and reports thousands of entities on a waiting list. The product page includes merchant onboarding forms, SDK and API documentation, a roadmap that lists point-of-sale support, a dashboard and broader e-commerce features, plus early-access channels for partners.

The architecture concentrates settlement responsibility in a miner-operated pool. Transaction prioritization, selection for block templates and pool performance determine final settlement timing. Wallet providers must integrate the SDK and weigh the 0.1% fee share offered to them for routing payments through the system. Merchants must decide whether to accept BTC-denominated receipts that may settle on-chain hours after checkout.

Adoption will depend on external wallet integration, named merchant signups and real-world settlement performance under merchant transaction volumes. The June 19 launch establishes live SDK and API access and an early-access deployment for testing the miner-operated settlement approach.