The Bitcoin network is heading toward an activation of the new Segwit consensus rules on August 20th, 2017. If you are using BitPay's Bitcore Bitcoin development platform for your own Bitcoin project or service, you'll need to take
What can you really buy with bitcoin? Skeptics have been asking bitcoin users this question since Bitcoin's start in 2009. Well, the answer now is pretty much anything. How? Enter the online gift card marketplace, a powerful gateway
Need to access your Bitcoin Cash? We've just released an improvement to our wallet recovery tools to allow BitPay and Copay wallet users to withdraw funds to wallets that support BCH. The Bitcoin network recently experienced a hard
We’ve received a lot of inquiries about our stance on the Bitcoin Cash Fork (known as BCC) that is scheduled to activate on August 1st. At this time BitPay’s merchant and payouts services have no plans
We're excited to announce that affiliate marketing giant ClickSure will be the latest company to offer bitcoin payouts via BitPay. ClickSure is one of the largest affiliate marketplaces in the world, providing advertisers and vendors with a powerful
We're currently seeing a number of proposals for – and plenty of misinformation about – the activation of updates to Bitcoin's consensus rules. Bitcoin's consensus rules are rules chosen by Bitcoin miners, who determine which bitcoin transactions are processed on
For most new bitcoin users today, the best and easiest way to get bitcoin is to use an online bitcoin exchange. Once you get bitcoin, though, you may decide that an exchange's website is not the best place
