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The Bitcoin miner is seeking partners to build Bitcoin payment apps, a company executive said.

Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital (MARA) is seeking partnerships with blockchain developers to build Bitcoin (BTC) Layer-2 solutions for cross-border BTC payments, Julian Duran, Marathon’s product lead for side chains, said at the Bitcoin 2024 conference on July 26 in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Cross-border payments are “the biggest use-case for blockchain, generally speaking, and especially for Bitcoin,” according to Duran, who also contributes to Anduro, Marathon’s in-house Bitcoin Layer-2. He said payments are “at the top of my list” of development priorities.

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