Bitcoin payment and
wallet company BitPay announced today that due to Google announcing that it will be retiring Chrome app support on non-Chrome OS platforms in 2018, including Windows, Linux, and Mac, this means that BitPay's Copay bitcoin wallet will no longer be available in the Chrome app directory.
Not exact matches
The
company has big goals for 2018 post-raise, including key engineering hires, regulatory licensing, technology acquisitions, and expansion into emerging markets in Asia — one of
BitPay's fastest - growing regions for transactions and
wallet adoption.
Two weeks ago,
BitPay, the Atlanta - based bitcoin payment
company launched beta support for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) within its open - source Copay
wallet.
Even before the buy and sell Bitcoin service existed, the
company had its own set of merchant tools and Bitcoin
wallet, and once the buy and sell Bitcoin service was introduced the two could be combined together into a complete,
BitPay - like merchant package with which any merchant can accept bitcoins and have them immediately converted into USD and delivered to their bank account, all at a 1 % fee.
Payment processor
BitPay confirmed its intention to integrate SegWit as well for its Copay
wallet and the new
BitPay wallet, but the
company is taking a slightly more conservative approach.
The
company says Copay will continue to be the primary «development head» for the
BitPay wallet app.
A word of warning: Sending BTC to a BCH address or BCH to a BTC address will cause users to lose access to their funds, although in
BitPay's case, the
company said it has already adopted «a few new conventions» to ensure that its users won't accidentally send BTC to a BCH
wallet and vice versa.
The
BitPay Wallet adoption rate is also growing with the
company seeing more than $ 3 billion per month in transactions.
After a long preparation, one of the leading bitcoin
companies in the world,
BitPay finally launched the new Bitcoin
wallet Copay for Mac and Linux.
Developed by veteran
company BitPay, Copay is one of the very first multisig
wallets available to the public.
This week the
company Bitpay added BCH support to its Copay
wallet giving BCH proponents another credible open source light client.
According to Coin Dance, the mandatory soft fork of BIP148 is backed by a number of crypto
companies, including BitFury, BTCC, Bitcoin India, the exchanges service BitcoinReminder, the
wallets BitPay, Samourai
Wallet, and the bitcoin consulting
company Freedom Node.
The
company's contingency plan applies to its merchant services, its Copay
wallet software, and
Bitpay Visa card users as well.