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What percentage of merchant Bitcoin receipts are immediately converted into fiat?

Does anyone have access to this data from Bitpay or Coinbase perhaps? If so please break down the data by country and industry if available and how these statistics have changed over time.
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How does BitPay manage to confirm transactions so fast (less than a minute)?

I believe it takes about an hour for 6 confirmations. (Edited from David Schwartz's comment) However, when I purchased some stuff from merchants who used BitPay, the payment/orders were confirmed in like 20 seconds or so? Since BitPay is confirming…
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What wallets are affected by the NPM package vulnerability?

Recently, a vulnerability was found in an open-source project used by some bitcoin wallet software (such as CoPay and BitPay). Are there any other wallets known to be affected by this vulnerability? If I am a user of this software, what steps can…
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How can I tell whether transactions were (not) made via BitPay / Coinbase?

Background Recently, Rep. Steve Stockman posed for a photo op with his Bitcoin address on a big QR code, which got shared. He has a Bitcoin donation page which asks for identifying info and goes through BitPay, but of course anyone could send him…
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Displaying price in BTC based on USD exchange rate

This is a pretty classic programming question, but I think it is a very common one for the Bitcoin community, and would be helpful to have the code publicly available. My preference is for a php script. Bitpay publishes it's exchange rates here:…
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How many confirmations does bitpay wait?

I've made one purchase with bitpay, it has been received by the merchant who is stating "Payment received. Waiting for more confirmations". While this is fine, I find it quite odd I didn't manage to find exactly how many confirmations are they going…
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Is there some website that aggregates all the Bitcoin exchange prices so small businesses can find out the current market rate and react accordingly?

I have a small business in doing repairs and I'm willing to take bitcoin, but i was wondering if there is a site that aggregates all the bitcoin exchange prices so I can get an idea of what price to charge in bitcoins to avoid the day to day…
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Bitpay unused address - has balance

So, I have a wallet - and the balance is incorrect. I have looked into it a bunch and finally tracked down what I think is the issue. If I view all of the addresses used in my wallet I see a list of Addresses with balance and unused addresses. The…
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Direct Deposit From Employer To BitPay?

I searched the site to see if this had been asked and don't see it. A friend of mine told me yesterday that I could have a portion of my direct deposit directed to a BitPay account that could auto-buy a portion of a bitcoin (like $20 each check). …
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How to accept payments with Blockchain in PHP

I am trying to set up sort of a BitPay system where 1) A user selects how much money they want to send (price in BTC). 2) The system gives the user an amount of money they need to pay and the address they need to send to. 3) The system checks if…
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Incoming block handler is never called when using bitcore

I want to get blocks on my node with bitcore. For example, I'm using peermanager.js and I get transactions: var handleTx = function(info) { var tx = info.message.tx.getStandardizedObject(); console.log('** TX Received **'); …
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How do I withdraw money from BitPay?

I have funds in BitPay that I received from several sales on my website. My split is 0% USD cash and 100% Bitcoin. Is it possible to transfer this Bitcoin balance to another account within BitPay? Alternatively, how can I withdraw bitcoins from my…
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How to accept Bitcoin payments using Bitpay and Electrum for a business

Our company uses a standard invoicing model where we bill our clients the service charge and require payment within X days. We'd like to be able to add a "Pay with Bitcoin" option on the invoices. We are thinking we'd use a service like Bitpay to…
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When purchasing an item through BitPay, how do their exchange rates compare with the market exchange rates?

BitPay allows merchants to price their products in USD, and receive USD when a customer pays using Bitcoin. The exchange rate used at the time of purchase is calculated somehow by BitPay, but their website doesn't indicate how it's calculated. If at…
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Bitpay xPrivKey to private key

Network: BCH testnet Client: bitcoin-abc-0.18/bin/bitcoind and bitcoin-cli I want to convert xPrivKey which is from exported Bitpay wallet file to private key for using bitcoin-cli importprivkey Thank you.
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