Product BitPay, Payment Protocol (BIP-70), and Our Users' Bitcoin Payment Experience Some users of BitPay’s service have been inconvenienced by our requirement to use Payment Protocol (also known as BIP-70*). Because we require Payment Protocol payments, some users have had to switch to
BitPay’s Perspective on Segwit2x Last week BitPay published an advisory1 regarding a double spend risk2 for developers using non-Segwit compatible nodes of our Bitcoin development platform Bitcore3. We recommended that these developers mitigate double-spend risk by installing
Statement Regarding Last Year's Theft On September 15, 2015, BitPay filed suit against its insurer, Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company ("MBIC") to recover amounts owed under a commercial crime policy issued by MBIC to BitPay as well
Product Help your friends get bits – Facebook, meet Bitcoin Today we're announcing a simple solution to get bitcoin anywhere in the world — from your friends. Get Bits is a Facebook application to connect friends who want bitcoin with friends who have it.
Engineering Copay (beta), An Open Source Multisig Wallet BitPay is pleased to announce Copay, an open source, multi-signature wallet. Copay was born out of our own need to securely store Bitcoins and we felt it needed to be shared. We believe
Product BitPay Launches Payment Protocol Support Payments to BitPay merchants just got a lot easier. Today, we are launching support for the Bitcoin Payment Protocol. The Bitcoin Payment Protocol (as specified in BIPs 70 - 73) eliminates a lot
Product Introducing Bitcore We're launching a new open source Bitcoin project called Bitcore, making it easier than ever to build things that interact with the real Bitcoin network. At BitPay, we believe that developers contemplating new
Product Enhancements to BitPay Over the weekend, we rolled out several enhancements and new features to our world-leading bitcoin merchant service. Improved Checkout Experience We’ve taken feedback from our merchants and their customers and redesigned our
Product Update on BitPay Exchange Rate Calculations Effective immediately, we have temporarily stopped using Mt. Gox for determining the exchange rate for our invoices. The rate calculation that we use for each invoice is now as follows: Pull the full
Team BitPay Expands Staff to Seven Full-Time Employees ATLANTA — April 22, 2013 — BitPay Inc., the world's leading payment processor for bitcoin, announces it now has seven full-time employees working in its Atlanta office, using the funding from its seed round in
Engineering Applying Late Transactions to Guaranteed Rate Invoices Over the past week, many transactions coming from bitcoin account service Coinbase were arriving many hours- and sometimes several days- after the buyers had attempted to send the transactions. The account service had
Engineering Bugs and Forks Last night BitPay's servers started huffing and puffing. At first we thought we might have had a database corruption issue, but on further inspection we realized that one of our Bitcoin nodes seemed
