North Dakota’s Williston city has partnered with crypto payment firm BitPay to start accepting cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) as payment for utility bills. Hercules Cummings, finance director for the City of Williston, said: “We have partnered with BitPay, the largest virtual payment merchant whose partners include Microsoft and Facebook. We are the first municipality in the State of North Dakota, and the third in the nation, to offer this service.” It has been reported

As cryptocurrencies continue to rise in value, American luxury brand, The Kessler Collection has started adopting Bitcoin(BTC) and cryptocurrencies for payment options. According to The Kessler Collection’s Press Release, it is the first in the world to partner with Atlanta company, BitPay, the world’s largest provider of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services. On the historic collaboration, Richard Kessler, chairman, and CEO of The Kessler Collection states: I believe c

BitPay has announced that its card users can now connect to Apple Wallet and pay for goods and services using Apple Pay. Stephen Pair, the CEO of BitPay, said: “We have thousands of BitPay Wallet app customers using the BitPay Card who are always looking for new places and ways to spend their crypto. Adding Apple Pay and soon Google and Samsung Pay makes it easy and convenient to use the BitPay Card in more places from day-to-day items to luxury purchases.” It has been report

BitPay, the Bitcoin (BTC) payments giant, has aimed to form a national trust bank, based on its recent filing with the United States Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Eden Doniger, the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of BitPay, said: “We confirm BitPay has filed an application with the United States Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish BitPay National Trust Bank. A national trust bank is a limited purpose national bank that

BitPay, the crypto payment services provider, has launched “BitPay Send,” a new blockchain-powered mass-payout platform, for businesses. It has been reported that BitPay Send allows organizations who don’t want to handle or own crypto themselves to process crypto payments en masse. However, it can be used to complete payroll payments, pay contractors or affiliates, and process customer cashback and rewards programs. Available in 225 countries, all recipients need to pass the

More than 40 companies including the leading Indian cryptocurrency exchange, Bitbns, GoPay, Ripple, Blockchain.com, Brave and Huobi have joined forces to form the Open Payments Coalition and launch universal payments network, PayID. PayID is a simple, web-based protocol designed to make it as easy to send someone money as it is to send them an email. The new payment process will allow users to send or receive money anywhere in the world across any payment network in real tim

BitPay, the Bitcoin payment service provider, has partnered with the major cryptocurrency exchange Binance to provide the payment firm’s 2 million individual and merchant customers with BUSD, Binance’s stablecoin. On April 27, it has been reported that BitPay’s wallet launched support for BUSD with merchant support slated to go LIVE “in the coming days.” However, the support for BUSD will also be ascended for BitPay Card, as only US-based customers are able to use BitPay Card

OneGold, an online marketplace for buying, selling and redeeming precious metals, announced a partnership with BitPay on January 13, which will allow crypto users to purchase gold and other valuable metals on Android and iOS devices. BitPay Integration Lets Users Buy #Gold With #Cryptocurrencyhttps://t.co/kFS7zJn0U7https://t.co/hWbPtVerPR — CN 🚀📫💡 (@_cryptoNole) January 13, 2020 It has been reported that through the integration with BitPay, a leading Bitcoin payment servi

BitPay, a major cryptocurrency payment service provider confirmed that its service had a temporary outage of Bitcoin (BTC) payments on Dec. 22. The payments service was briefly unavailable for almost 3.5 hours on BitPay as the company was working to fix transaction issues. On Dec. 22 BitPay Support tweeted: BTC payments were briefly unavailable today between 1 and 4:25 PM as we worked to resolve transaction infrastructure issues. Service is restored. — BitPay Support (@BitPay