Launched across European markets in 2019, Bottlepay in February raised £11 million in a seed funding round backed by British fund manager Alan Howard, present and former Goldman Sachs partners, FinTech Collective and Nydig.The acquisition will allow Nydig to integrate Bottlepay's Lightning Network infrastructure into its existing full-stack bitcoin platform, which enables financial institutions to provide crypto payments to retail customers. "We believe that the next chapter of Bitcoin will be about Bitcoin - big B - the network," says Ross Stevens, founder and executive chairman of Nydig, and Robert Gutmann, co-founder and CEO, in a joint statement.
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