Bitcoin users love precious metals. This year, we've seen bitcoin users spend millions of dollars in bitcoin to purchase gold and silver from BitPay merchants. Now we're further expanding options for bitcoin users who want precious metals in
ATLANTA — December 6, 2017— Blockchain payments technology platform BitPay announced today that it is raising $30M in a strategic Series B funding round led by Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG), a fund managed by Aquiline Capital Partners that invests
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
