BitPay brings Bitcoin to online gaming company Wargaming LeapRate

February 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

BitPay brings Bitcoin to online gaming company Wargaming

Bitcoin technology and payment processing company BitPay on Wednesday announced the addition of online gaming company Wargaming to its list of partners. Wargaming is known as the creator of numerous titles in strategy-based massively-multiplayer online (MMO) gaming, such as World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes. Thanks to the partnership with BitPay,…

December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

BitPay expands in Asia via partnership with GASH Point

Bitcoin technology and payment processing company BitPay on Wednesday announced a partnership with GASH Point, a gaming payment brand owned by Taiwanese digital media giant Gamania. GASH Point is a reloadable wallet and prepaid card for online gaming purchases. The wallet is already used by GASH's 10 million clients in Asia and powers more than…

December 06, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Top Bitcoin Myths – #8: Bitcoin is too volatile for merchants to accept

The following guest post is one of a series courtesy of Marco Streng, CEO and Co-founder of Genesis Mining. [divide] The price of Bitcoin is extremely volatile and has been since inception. It is not uncommon for the price to increase or decrease 10%, 20% or even 30% in a single day. From the outside, this…

October 23, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Bitcoin companies, institutions unite in Blockchain Alliance

A new organization, uniting the efforts of numerous Bitcoin companies and institutions, was formed in Washington on Thursday. The Blockchain Alliance is a public-private forum, founded by the Chamber of Digital Commerce and Coin Center, and comprising an impressive list of members, whose common aim is to combat criminal activity related to Bitcoin and the blockchain.…

October 22, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

BitPay partners with Glidera to offer users of Copay in US to buy/sell Bitcoin

Bitcoin technology and payment processing company BitPay has teamed up with Bitcoin exchange Glidera to enable users of its open source Bitcoin wallet Copay in a number of US states to buy or sell Bitcoin. The functionality, still in beta, is available in the newest version (1.3.1) of Copay. Users to be able to use…

October 20, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

BitPay grows LatAm business via partnership with Bitso

Bitcoin payments processor BitPay has partnered with Mexican Bitcoin exchange Bitso, as it strengthens its footprint in the Latin American market. The partnership is announced shortly after BitPay announced the addition of the Mexican retail chain, Grupo Famsa, to the list of users of BitPay platform. Famsa is the first major Latin American retailer to…

September 28, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Bitpay releases update to Copay wallet

Version 1.2.5 of the open source bitcoin wallet handles backups by supporting the industry standard - mnemonics seed backups.

March 10, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

BitPay goes national! Referral partnership deal struck with Heartland Payment Systems

BitPay has increased its number of merchants from 10,000 in mid 2013 to 50,000 in February this year. The firm has partnered with publicly listed Heartland Payment Systems in the latest part of its quest to bring Bitcoin into the mainstream

January 17, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Bitcoin slam dunk – NBA’s Sacramento Kings engage with BitPay to accept Bitcoin payments

More Bitcoin mainstreaming – Americans can pay their taxes to the IRS with Bitcoin via snapCard Sports and technology go hand in hand - that has been the motto of the new owner of NBA team Sacramento Kings. The latest manifestation of his commitment to revolutionize the professional sports industry and polish the image…

January 14, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Is eBay about to introduce its own version of Bitcoin?

We need a payment systems revolution and Bitcoin is part of the solution, Paypal could be jumping on the bandwagon Forget about copycats that are trying to take away the crown of Bitcoin amongst digital currencies – forget about the satiric ambitions of Dogecoin (yes, really...) and the daring Coinye (formerly Coinye West...). If you…

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