Bitcoin Payment Processor Sees 1900% Growth in Europe Since 2013
BitPay, one of the world's largest Bitcoin payment processors, has come a long way since their first office in Atlanta where only the two co- founders were working on the future of payment processing. Now a world leader in business solutions for the Bitcoin digital currency, BitPay, is expanding yet again to a new office to meet the increase in global demand. The need for a new Amsterdam office is marked by a 1900% increase in merchant adoption via BitPay since 2013. 2,500 merchants, and counting, have signed up for BitPay's service. The total number of European BitPay merchants are now....
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