Half Year Report: 60% of World’s Bitcoin Merchants Are Using BitPay

Half Year Report: 60% of World’s Bitcoin Merchants Are Using BitPay

Leading global bitcoin payment processor BitPay has published a half year report on bitcoin which covers growth of merchants, transactions, volume, etc. Today, over 100,000 merchants worldwide are accepting bitcoin. Out of the 100,000 bitcoin merchants, 60% are processing bitcoin payments through BitPay. The number of transactions in the 2nd quarter of 2015 for the European region has reached an all-time high of 102,221 transactions per quarter (34,074 per month). "Merchants in Europe use payments service providers to aggregate all those payment methods into one solution, but bitcoin....


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