Since BitPay started in 2011, we've been obsessed with improving the bitcoin payment experience. Bitcoin has powerful benefits for online payments. But there are always challenges with introducing a big change in how payments work. Bitcoin has been
Google has announced that it will be ending support for Chrome Apps on non-Chrome OS platforms in 2018. This means that our Copay bitcoin wallet will no longer be available in the Chrome App directory. BitPay and Copay
BitPay plans to continue offering service on the main Bitcoin block chain without interruption. Two weeks ago we published an advisory for BitPay users about Segwit2x, a planned change to the Bitcoin protocol. This protocol change would have
In September 2017 we introduced support for Bitcoin Cash transactions in the BitPay and Copay wallets. The majority of Bitcoin Cash miners are now signaling intent to activate a change to the Bitcoin Cash mining difficulty algorithm. This
UPDATE, 11/10/17: Several companies including Bitmain (a large miner) have suspended Segwit2x efforts. We are still monitoring the situation, but we now believe that bitcoin miners will not activate the protocol change as expected. Bitcoin miners
It's 2017, six years after we started BitPay and nearly nine years since the Bitcoin experiment began. If you've not been living under a rock, you've seen that the bitcoin price and daily transaction count have taken to
Two weeks ago we launched beta support for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in our Copay wallet. Last week we also released a version of our Insight block explorer for the Bitcoin Cash network. Now we're taking another step to
