Bitrefill raised $ 2 million during the next round of financing

The Bitrefill mobile services recharge service that promotes the Lightning Network technology has raised $ 2 million in investments, CoinDesk reports.

Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin cryptocurrency, Fulgur Ventures and the BnkToTheFuture platform, contributed to the development of the startup. Headed a round of financing company Coin Ninja.

The Swedish startup will direct the raised funds to the development of new markets, the launch of new products and the expansion of staff.

"We intend to continue to offer new services to the market based on the Lightning Network and cooperate with a large number of Bitcoin- related companies ," said John Carvalho, director of public relations with Bitrefill.

To date, the amount of venture investments attracted by a startup is $ 2.4 million.

Recall that Bitrefill and ACINQ recently launched a Lightning Network (LN) channel with a capacity of 1 BTC.

Also at the beginning of the year, Bitrefill introduced the Thor service , which provides the ability to open an LN channel from a startup node. This allows anyone to receive Bitcoins through Lightning channels, having only a link and a wallet application.

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