BitPay Releases Version 1.1 of Copay Wallet with Variable Transaction Fees

After a year of testing, BitPay has launched, Copay, a secure and shared Bitcoin wallet. BitPay advertises Copay as a “true” Bitcoin wallet rather than an online account, securing users’ personal funds with the option of multi-sig. On BitPay’s official blog, the company says that Copay is an outcome of the efforts put towards the goal it set for itself one year ago. BitPay aimed to build a Bitcoin wallet secure enough for the company’s own funds. BitPay claims that when customers use Copay, they completely control their money. Copay users get secure, future-proof backups that allow access....

After a year of beta testing, the first version of BitPay's multi-signature wallet Copay was released on June 3. Copay is a multi-signature wallet built on BitPay's Bitcore, an open-source platform for bitcoin- and blockchain-based applications. Copay multi-sig wallet is a shared bitcoin wallet, in which each owner holds a unique private key and the ability to push out payments or withdrawals. A transaction initiated in a Copay multi-sig wallet requires the approval of multiple people - efficient for businesses and privacy-conscious users."With Copay, a small company can, for example,....

For those of you following the developments of Copay, an open-source multi-signature wallet in development by BitPay, some new information is coming our with regard to its capabilities. Specifically, the information relates to asynchronous multisig capabilities. Now, just in case you're not familiar, Copay allows the transmission of funds from a wallet once all copayers sign a transaction (the amount of copayers is chosen when the wallet is set up). But in order for this to have happened, all copayers were required to be online in order to spend the bitcoin. That, of course, is a minor....

BitPay has revealed a new partnership with Intel software services. During this week’s Money 20/20 event in Las Vegas, the company announced its Copay users will get hardware-level security with Intel Software Guard Extensions. BitPay’s Wallet Service Copay Gets An Intel Upgrade. Leading Bitcoin payment processor Bitpay continues its progress in this....

Bitcoin payments processor BitPay has released the beta version of an open-source, multi-signature wallet service called Copay. Copay aims to provide a solution to a central security issue posed by the use of a private key - that bitcoins can become compromised and stolen if someone fraudulently gains access to it. The issue has brought a lot of attention to multisig technology, with several notable companies in the ecosystem developing and releasing multisig wallets in recent months. BitPay chief executive and co-founder Stephen Pair told CoinDesk that the company expects multisig....