BitPay Brings 16-Year Visa Veteran Aboard as Regional Sales Manager
BitPay is quickly becoming one of the fastest-growing companies in the bitcoin space. With recent news they've opened offices in Latin America and most recently in New York and San Francisco, they've certainly demonstrated their success, and now, they're bringing a 16-year veteran of the VISA company aboard. He's Andy Goldstein, and having spent a good chunk of time at the multinational financial services firm, he's ready to make his way into the bitcoinosphere, according to Payments Source. "The Bitcoin space offered technology innovation, flexibility and creativity," he was quoted as....
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Comments added from Alberto Vega, BitPay's Regional Manager for Latin America. Latin American e-tailer Famsa is now accepting bitcoin for online purchases. The chain, founded in 1970, sells a variety of consumer goods and electronics across Mexico and the US. It is processing transactions via Atlanta firm BitPay. The news follows last month's announcement from MercadoLibre - the 'eBay of Latin America' - that it would integrate bitcoin, and a deal between Mexico's BitPagos and Entrepids to allow e-commerce stores to accept the currency. Alberto Vega, BitPay's regional manager for Latin....
Bitpay CEO Tony Gallippi says rebranding and opening an Amsterdam office is just the tip of the iceberg. BitPay has more exciting plans for the future. Bitcoin payment provider Bitpay will be opening its European headquarters in Dutch capital Amsterdam. The office will handle sales, implementation and merchant support for all European customers. At this moment, Bitpay offers its services to 7,000 merchants all over Europe. By the end of 2014, the company has set a goal of acquiring and serving 30,000 merchants in the continent. New people. Opening a new office brings new career....
Bitcoin payments processor BitPay has unveiled a new bitcoin debit card that will enable users to make payments at any Visa point-of-sale (POS) terminals and withdraw cash at Visa ATMs, anywhere across the United States. BitPay has launched its new BitPay Visa card, a debit card that will be available for users in all 50 of the United States. The payments provider also revealed that the bitcoin debit card can be loaded up to $10,000 per day in spendable funds with zero fees on bitcoin top-ups specifically. Notably, the BitPay card can also be reloaded with direct deposits from an employer.....
Total crypto payments on BitPay remained stable despite the bear market, with monthly transactions surging from around 58,000 in 2021 to 67,000 in 2022. The cryptocurrency bear market has had an impact on how people pay with crypto, but Bitcoin (BTC) remains a major payment tool despite huge volatility, according to data from BitPay.The share of Bitcoin payments in the total BitPay transactions has been shrinking amid the ongoing cryptocurrency winter, but it’s still the most popular cryptocurrency for payments on the platform.The sales volumes of Bitcoin-based payments on BitPay accounted....