Press BitPay Launches Bitcoin Merchant Directory ATLANTA — November 25, 2013 — BitPay [https://bitpay.com/] has launched a new global bitcoin directory [https://bitpay.com/directory] which features many of the world's greatest bitcoin-accepting merchants. Shoppers looking for
Press BitPay Surpasses 10,000 Merchants ATLANTA — September 16, 2013 — BitPay Inc, the world leader in business solutions for virtual currencies, announces it has over 10,000 approved merchants in 164 countries using its service to accept bitcoin payments.
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: 1. Pull the
Team BitPay Expands Staff to Seven Full-Time Employees ATLANTA — April 22, 2013 — BitPay Inc. [https://bitpay.com/], the world's leading payment processor for bitcoin, announces it now has seven full-time employees working in its Atlanta office, using the funding
Press BitPay Eclipses Silk Road in Bitcoin Sales with Explosive $5.2M March ATLANTA — April 2, 2013 — BitPay Inc [https://bitpay.com/], the world's leading payment processor for bitcoin, announces it has processed over $5.2 million in bitcoin transactions for its merchants during
Engineering Applying Late Transactions to Guaranteed Rate Invoices Over the past week, many transactions coming from bitcoin account service Coinbase [http://Coinbase.com] were arriving many hours- and sometimes several days- after the buyers had attempted to send the transactions. The
Product How FinCEN Guidelines Affect BitPay We have received numerous industry and press inquiries as to how the March 18 Guidance from FinCEN regarding virtual currencies [http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html] would affect BitPay. FinCEN&
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
Product BitPay Adds Google Authenticator, 7 New Countries for Direct Bank Deposit We have added support for Google Authenticator for those merchants looking for an extra layer of security on their merchant accounts. Users can enable the new Google Authenticator feature on their BitPay.com
Press BitPay Surpasses 10,000 Bitcoin Merchant Transactions, Zero Cases of Payment Fraud ATLANTA — January 22, 2013 — BitPay, Inc, the world leader in bitcoin payment processing, has successfully processed more than 10,000 bitcoin payments for their merchants. In their first 10,000 transactions, BitPay has
Product New, Lower Fees for International Bitcoin Payments We have lowered our processing fees for all merchants outside the United States who wish to receive direct deposits [https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-direct-deposit] into their bank accounts. The new rates are 2.99%