{"id":17652,"date":"2021-02-19T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe7c80002697"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T12:49:58","slug":"lastbit-launches-two-lightning-payment-apps-to-boost-adoption-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/lastbit-launches-two-lightning-payment-apps-to-boost-adoption-in-europe","title":{"rendered":"Lastbit Launches Two Lightning Payment Apps To Boost Adoption In Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lightning-networks-latest-news.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"cuyr8Rii6Qk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lastbit Launches Two Lightning Powered Apps in Europe! (Lastbit Lite and Lastbit Cards)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cuyr8Rii6Qk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Today, bitcoin payments company Lastbit announced the launch of two payment apps designed to spread use of the Lightning Network among Europeans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the apps, Lastbit Lite, is a mobile payment app that integrates a Lightning Network wallet with a euro-denominated, International Bank Account Number- (IBAN) designated bank account. And the other, Lastbit Cards, is a mobile app that lets users fund their Lastbit debit cards via the Lightning Network using Lite or any Lightning Network wallet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith these applications, users can send euros over Lightning instantly and even buy bitcoin or pay Lightning invoices instantly, directly from their Lastbit Card interface,\u201d according to a release shared by Lastbit. \u201cLastbit built these products to demonstrate that Bitcoin and the Lightning Network can in fact be integrated into traditional financial rails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Lite, users can make bitcoin transactions on-chain or over Lightning and can transfer euros as BTC back and forth via the Lightning Network. With Cards, they can pay Lightning invoices and access a physical Mastercard-branded debit card that can be used at merchants in person.<\/p>\n<p>The release claimed that these are the first apps available in Europe that make it possible for users to move instantly between bitcoin and euros using the Lightning Network through IBAN accounts or Mastercard debit cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lightning Network is a financial settlement technology that can seriously disrupt how payments are processed globally,\u201d said Bernardo Magnani, cofounder of Lastbit, per the release. \u201cThis is barely the tip of the iceberg.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Lastbit Lite and Lastbit Cards, users can move instantly between bitcoin and euros via the Lightning Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3352,"featured_media":8243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3103,285,477],"class_list":["post-17652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technical","tag-lastbit","tag-mastercard","tag-payments"],"author_data":{"id":3352,"name":"Christian And Peter","nicename":"christian-and-peter","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/christian-keroles-and-peter-chawaga-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/lightning-networks-latest-news.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}