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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

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 [https://bitcore.io/] as a Node.js platform for

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

Since we introduced our Payment Protocol requirement [https://blog.bitpay.com/bitpay-and-payment-protocol/] for BitPay invoices, we have seen a dramatic reduction [https://blog.bitpay.com/payment-protocol-results/] in payment errors to BitPay merchants. For

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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 [https://blog.bitpay.com/bitcoin-cash-wallet-beta/] in our BitPay [https://bitpay.com/wallet] and Copay [https://copay.io/] wallets. Back then, Bitcoin Cash

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BitPay, Payment Protocol (BIP-70), and Our Users' Bitcoin Payment Experience

UPDATE, 04/06/2022: BitPay supports Bitcoin Lightning Network payments. [https://bitpay.com/bitpay-supports-lightning-network-payments/] While Lightning Network is not technically part of the payment protocol spec, it acheives the same goal by creating

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BitPay Invoices Will Soon Require Payment Protocol for Bitcoin Transactions

UPDATE, 9/26/18: View our full list of frequently asked questions [https://support.bitpay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015839672?flash_digest=8978119d62d80113b2344e0ef3d7300a74e13ff1] about BitPay and Payment Protocol. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since BitPay started in

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

Last week we launched a beta release [https://blog.bitpay.com/bitcoin-cash-wallet-beta/] of our Copay [https://copay.io/] wallet featuring support for Bitcoin Cash transactions alongside Bitcoin. Naturally, our next step is to

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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 [https://bitcore.io], our full node Bitcoin and blockchain development platform. We have released a preview of version 5.0 [https://github.com/

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

Earlier this month Microsoft announced [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-as-a-service-update-3/] our addition to their new blockchain as a service (BaaS) platform hosted on the cloud service Azure [https://azure.microsoft.com/

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A New BitPay SDK for iOS Developers

Our bitcoin payment gateway API [https://bitpay.com/api] is making its iOS-native development debut with our new iOS SDK [https://github.com/bitpay/ios-sdk]. This release provides iOS developers the core functionality

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Access the New BitPay Go Library

Go language [https://golang.org/] developers can now easily authenticate and use the BitPay API with our newly-released Go library [https://github.com/bitpay/bitpay-go]. We are always on the lookout for ways

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BitPay's New Elixir Library

We have added an Elixir library [https://github.com/bitpay/elixir-client] for businesses looking to do custom integrations for any Erlang or Elixir [http://elixir-lang.org]-based project. The Elixir library can now