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The Nov 15th 2020 Bitcoin Cash fork, and what it means for our customers

Due to the upcoming BCH hard fork, we are planning to temporarily suspend BCH transactions for all payment processing — effective November 13th, 2020 at 1pm ET

Industry Analysis

Forrester Study Shows Accepting Crypto Attracts New Customers & Boosts AOV

For BitPay, Forrester determined the combined value from additional sales from new customers and increased average order value, together with the fee savings delivers an overall ROI of 327%.

News

Your Monthly Newsletter for All Things BitPay and Crypto

Welcome to the Cryptie, BitPay’s official monthly business newsletter. Here at the Cryptie, it’s our job to keep you in the loop about the latest ups, downs, and plot twists in the ever-evolving landscape of cryptocurrency — and to keep you well informed about what’s happening at BitPay.

Product Updates

BitPay Adds Wyre to Become the Only Crypto App You'll Ever Need

With the addition of crypto purchases through Wyre, BitPay app users can now buy crypto with a debit card, Apple Pay, and soon Google Pay and Samsung Pay.

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Coinbase users can now instantly pay BitPay merchants directly from their Coinbase account

Recently, we enhanced our integration with Coinbase to allow users to make instant payments directly from their Coinbase Exchange accounts

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BitPay Updates App to Support SegWit, Dark Mode and the Ability to Directly Manage Your Coinbase Wallets

We’ve added support for SegWit in our wallet as an optional feature. In addition, we have enhanced our integration with Coinbase to enable users to directly manage their Coinbase wallets from inside the BitPay App. Last, we’ve created a new dark mode setting within the app.

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Frost & Sullivan Names BitPay as Company of the Year

Recently we learned that Frost & Sullivan, a leading market research and consulting firm, has named BitPay Company of the Year in the alternative payments space. We’re honored to be recognized as a category leader in our industry, and we wanted to share some of the reasons why we were chosen.

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BitPay Supports the PayID Mission to Make Blockchain Payments Easier

Sending money online should be simple and easy. At BitPay, we believe it can. That’s why we’ve joined the PayId initiative and partnered with Ripple to remove payment silos that require customers to have so many payment credentials.

Product

Introducing The New BitPay Card

BitPay is excited to announce the release of the first ever US prepaid Mastercard that can be loaded with dollars that are converted from cryptocurrency.

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Online gaming operators attract players using BitPay for instant Bitcoin deposits

BitPay Deposit allows online gaming operators to accept Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies deposits, fund user accounts in minutes, and receive next day irreversible bank account settlement in EUR, USD, or other local currency.

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Forex brokers attract traders using BitPay for instant Bitcoin deposits

BitPay Deposit allows brokers to accept Bitcoin and cryptocurrency deposits, fund user accounts in minutes, and receive next day irreversible bank account settlement in EUR, USD, or other local currency.

Merchants

BitPay Binance Partnership Brings BUSD to BitPay’s Global Merchants

With BUSD, BitPay expands blockchain payment choices for all our customers across the global payments space who want the flexibility of paying on the blockchain with the stability of the US dollar.