{"id":20232,"date":"2019-04-22T18:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T18:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe64300c2697"},"modified":"2019-04-22T18:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T18:08:48","slug":"moon-enables-lightning-network-payments-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/moon-enables-lightning-network-payments-amazon","title":{"rendered":"Moon Enables Lightning Network Payments on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/moon-enables-lightning-network-payments-on-amazon.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Crypto payment startup <a href=\"https:\/\/paywithmoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moon<\/a> has announced an online web browser extension that allows crypto users to make purchases on e-commerce sites like Amazon.com with Lightning Network payments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/you-can-now-shop-with-bitcoin-on-amazon-using-lightning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoinDesk<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Once the extension has been added to a user\u2019s browser, they will be prompted to register and integrate it with a Lightning-enabled wallet.<\/p>\n<p>It should be pointed out that Amazon itself doesn\u2019t accept bitcoin. Rather, the process begins with the user paying with crypto assets followed by a payment processor converting the assets into fiat currency and settling with the merchant.<\/p>\n<p>At checkout, the Moon extension provides a typical QR code with the invoice for payments. Once payment is completed, the user should be redirected to Amazon&#8217;s Success Page. Moon is available in the Chrome Web Store but its Lightning Network feature is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paywithmoon\/status\/1120337084097732608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto payment startup Moon has announced an online web browser extension that allows crypto users to make purchases on e-commerce sites like Amazon.com with Lightning Network payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":20233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2397,460,477],"class_list":{"0":"post-20232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technical","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-lightning-network","10":"tag-payments"},"author_data":{"id":3435,"name":"Jimmy Aki","nicename":"jimmy-aki","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/jimmy-aki-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/moon-enables-lightning-network-payments-on-amazon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232","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\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}