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A collection of 38 posts

JSON Payment Protocol: Simplifying Payment Protocol with ECDSA Signatures
Engineering

JSON Payment Protocol: Simplifying Payment Protocol with ECDSA Signatures

Payment Protocol has helped to make Bitcoin commerce payments smoother and more secure than ever. Now it's easier for wallet developers to implement in their own apps. We're excited to announce that the

  • The BitPay Team
    The BitPay Team
4 min read
Scale Multi-Chain Blockchain Applications with Bitcore Node v8 | Beta Release
Engineering

Scale Multi-Chain Blockchain Applications with Bitcore Node v8 | Beta Release

More developers than ever are using Bitcoin and blockchain technology to build projects and businesses. Since February 2014, we've been excited to provide Bitcore as a Node.js platform for those developers to

  • The BitPay Team
    The BitPay Team
3 min read
Engineering

You Can Now Use the Payment Protocol-Compatible Bitcoin.com Wallet for Error-Free Payments to BitPay Merchants

Over a month after we began requiring Payment Protocol wallets for BitPay invoice payments, we’ve achieved our goal of dramatically reducing costly payment errors for BitPay merchants and their customers. However, this

  • The BitPay Team
    The BitPay Team
1 min read
Introducing BitPay's New, Simplified JSON Payment Protocol Interface for Wallets and Exchanges
Product

Introducing BitPay's New, Simplified JSON Payment Protocol Interface for Wallets and Exchanges

Since we introduced our Payment Protocol requirement for BitPay invoices, we have seen a dramatic reduction in payment errors to BitPay merchants. For thousands of bitcoin users, these improvements have saved time and

  • The BitPay Team
    The BitPay Team
2 min read
BitPay and Copay Bitcoin Cash Wallets Now Use Bitcoin ABC’s New Cashaddr BCH Address Format
Wallet

BitPay and Copay Bitcoin Cash Wallets Now Use Bitcoin ABC’s New Cashaddr BCH Address Format

Back in September 2017, we launched support for Bitcoin Cash payments in our BitPay and Copay wallets. Back then, Bitcoin Cash addresses and Bitcoin addresses used the same format, so it was easy

  • The BitPay Team
    The BitPay Team
2 min read
BitPay, Payment Protocol (BIP-70), and Our Users' Bitcoin Payment Experience
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

  • Stephen Pair
    Stephen Pair
4 min read
Product

BitPay Invoices Will Soon Require Payment Protocol for Bitcoin Transactions

UPDATE, 9/26/18: View our full list of frequently asked questions about BitPay and Payment Protocol. Since BitPay started in 2011, we've been obsessed with improving the bitcoin payment experience. Bitcoin has

  • The BitPay Team
    The BitPay Team
4 min read
Product

You Can Now Search Your Bitcoin Cash Transactions on BitPay's Insight Block Explorer

Last week we launched a beta release of our Copay wallet featuring support for Bitcoin Cash transactions alongside Bitcoin. Naturally, our next step is to make those transactions easily searchable. We already provide

  • The BitPay Team
    The BitPay Team
1 min read
Engineering

Run Your Application On Any Bitcoin Implementation with Bitcore Version 5.0 (Preview Release)

Today we're excited to announce the next step for Bitcore, our full node Bitcoin and blockchain development platform. We have released a preview of version 5.0 which makes it possible to build

  • The BitPay Team
    The BitPay Team
2 min read
Engineering

Copay Wallet Android 6 Security Release

Today we're releasing version 2.4.2 of Copay for Android. This security release disables the automatic app backup feature which is enabled by default in Android 6 phones. If you are using

  • Matias Alejo Garcia
    Matias Alejo Garcia
1 min read
Engineering

The Easiest Way to Run a Full Bitcoin Node: Bitcore Comes to the Microsoft Azure Cloud

Earlier this month Microsoft announced our addition to their new blockchain as a service (BaaS) platform hosted on the cloud service Azure. Our open source Bitcoin full node and development platform Bitcore is

  • Chris Kleeschulte
    Chris Kleeschulte
1 min read
A New BitPay SDK for iOS Developers
Engineering

A New BitPay SDK for iOS Developers

Our bitcoin payment gateway API is making its iOS-native development debut with our new iOS SDK. This release provides iOS developers the core functionality for cryptographically-secure interactions with the BitPay API. The SDK

  • Chris Kleeschulte
    Chris Kleeschulte
1 min read
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