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What percentage of merchant Bitcoin receipts are immediately converted into fiat?
The last stats Bitpay published were in December, 2014, so it may be somewhat out of date. They said that 10% of the merchants keep settle entirely in Bitcoin, 41% of the merchants keep a part of ...
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What wallets are affected by the NPM package vulnerability?
Only Copay is affected by this vulnerability.
Although the package was included by many, many projects (both within and outside the crypto space), the attack payload was encrypted, and used the ...
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Direct Deposit From Employer To BitPay?
I am not aware of BitPay providing that service.
The most well known company that specializes in what you describe is BitWage:
https://www.bitwage.com/
Maybe that is what your friend meant since ...
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How to accept payments with Blockchain in PHP
Since you say "sort of a BitPay system", I assume you don't want to use BitPay.
You can start with dissecting some of the work people have done in the space on repositories such as bitwasp or bitcoin-...
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Help recovering BitPay wallet Reward!
What can I do?
You could find tools that automate the trying of various combinations of seed-words. Some are mentioned in similar questions here. For example btctools, btcrecover. Use them or adapt ...
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I sent bitcoin to someone and did not get paid
Does Bitcoin have a function that would allow the BTC you sent to be returned, No.
The only way to get the BTC back is if the recipient makes a new transaction sending the Bitcoin to your receiving ...
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How does bitcore-node get its data?
A Bitcoin blockchain indexing and query service. Intended to be used with as a Bitcoin full node or in conjunction with a Bitcoin full node.
From the first line of the README. It’s an out of date ...
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Help me please, restore a deleted Bitcoin Wallet
If you have made a backup of the seed words given by the original wallet, you should be able to simply restore them.
If you do not have a backup, your only hope is to immediately turn off the device ...
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What happens if a TX was a double spend?
The appearance of a double-spend on the network throws the status of the earlier payment into doubt. The doubt is only resolved when one of the payments is confirmed. As always, the more ...
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Should I use bitpay?
Electrum (https://electrum.org) is a good choice if you wish to store your bitcoin locally on your PC. Supports things like hardware wallets, multiple wallets, seed (longish string of words) to ...
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How do I transfer bitpay wallet from one machine to another (PC or oth. type of device)
Found it. There are 3 ways to do that in bitpay.
Export by scanning the QR code that can be found in: Settings > "Wallet name" >
More options > Export wallet
Export to file w/ password. ...
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How does BitPay detect unconfirmed transactions so quickly?
That is feature of Bitcoin node network.
When your client sends your transaction to network, every node is also sending your transaction to every other connected nodes. In about 5 seconds it is ...
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BitPay / Copay's Weird Bitcoin Cash Address Format
The previous answer, while correct, is outdated. While BitPay did use a proprietary format early on, we quickly adopted the CashAddr format for Bitcoin Cash/BCH transactions.
Example: bitcoincash:...
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BitPay / Copay's Weird Bitcoin Cash Address Format
It's a new address format for Bitcoin Cash proposed by BitPay, to prevent BTC/BCC address confusion. It's not widely used, currently.
The old addresses that start with 1 (P2PKH) are converted to ...
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How do Bitpay invoices hide the Bitcoin address to pay to? I want to pay with another wallet.
Bitpay uses the BIP 70 Payment Protocol. This protocol does not use addresses, which is why they are able to now show an address. Rather, the Bitcoin URI that you are given (either you scanned it with ...
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How to accept Bitcoin payments using Bitpay and Electrum for a business
Bitpay is easy to use but certainly has many limitations at least on the merchant side.
In my country it has even suspended the bitcoin settlement service altogether.
If your company is interested in ...
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How to accept Bitcoin payments using Bitpay and Electrum for a business
BitPay is literally the worst choice you can make for Bitcoin payment processing.
BitPay routinely requires your paying users to provide sensitive document scans even for the smallest amounts like $10 ...
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Bitpay unused address - has balance
Bitpay/Copay use Hierarchical Deterministic wallets so you can find all the adresses that has been generated from your root private key (seed recovery phrase)
Here is a guide with more information: ...
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Bitpay xPrivKey to private key
xPrivKey is a BIP32 extended key. This can be used to derive child addresses.
importprivkey expects a WIF Wallet Import Format.
In order to convert to from the extended to compressed format, all you ...
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Run insight in VPS
Bitcore is based on Bitcoin Core and must download the entire blockchain. Furthermore, it builds more indexes than Bitcoin Core does, so it will require more computing power and disk space than ...
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How do payment processors like bitpay work?
They generate a private key and an address corresponding to that private key everytime you see BitPay's payment page (even if you don't pay they keep the private key and that private key is generated ...
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How to send bitcoin programatically using API? Bitcoin Transaction. (Without Setting Node)
From C#, I would use NBitcoin to generate raw transaction and push it to some API provider. This eliminates the need of setting up full node.
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Bitcoin explorers don't show my addresses transactions
Check that this is the actual address that you used to receive the Bitcoin in the past.
The default behavior for wallets is to generate a new address each time you want to receive funds. This means ...
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How to query sender address from copay?
copay didn't provide this information for the transaction. It can be retrieved from other APIs.
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Bitcore-wallet-client "Server response could not be verified"
The problem was that I was creating the transaction proposal and publishing it, after that I used the result from createTxProposal and passed it to signTxProposal.
turns out that the txProposal ...
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Unable to transfer Bitcoin to USD
There is no link between a BitPay business account and a BitPay wallet. If you gave an individual a receiving address belonging to your wallet, then you should see the bitcoin arrive directly to your ...
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How to recover my Copay wallet using the 12 word seed phrase
Are you using the Import option when you try to recover the wallet?
This issue looks similar to what you're experiencing: https://github.com/bitpay/copay/issues/7399
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Importing Electrum backup into Bitpay?
Unfortunately, this is not possible, unless Bitpay allows you to import individual private keys, which, AFAIK, they don't.
Almost no wallets use the same wallet file format. They are generally ...
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