Plugins, Not Forks

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BTCPay Server moves feature work out of core into an extensible plugin system: about 30 plugins live in a directory, plugins build from a plugin template (C# today, hoping for multi‑lang later), run locally by forking BTCP repo, adding the plugin solution, then launching the stack with docker compose up. Builds are automated from GitHub repos and versioned; marketplace does light verification only, plugins remain opt‑in so merchants avoid added points of failure.

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1. 0:00Plugins in BTCPay Server
2. 3:53BTCPay's plugin architecture
3. 7:29Current plugin ecosystem
4. 12:13Customization via plugins
5. 15:53Plugin types and use cases
6. 21:27Plugin dev environment
7. 27:12Local plugin connection
8. 33:52Docker plugin testing
9. 37:09Publishing to marketplace
10. 42:30Live plugin demo
11. 45:01Q&A on plugins

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