This company helps businesses accept bitcoin lightning by point-of-sale or a digital e-commerce store, and experience faster, cheaper, and fairer payment acceptance.  For Michigan businesses that want to accept Bitcoin, or what to support their customers who want to pay with Bitcoin or Bitcoin Lightning, MI Lightning Rod can help that process.

MI Lightning Rod co-founder Eric Poliner said the startup aims to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions between businesses and customers in what he said is the true spirit of Bitcoin.

“What we’re after is trying to bring out like the actual intention of Bitcoin to be something that people use in their day to day lives,” Poliner said.