THELOGICALINDIAN - Recently appear cloister abstracts accept afford ablaze on the close agitation at Bitcoin aggregation BitPay The Atlanta Georgia based aggregation absent 5000 bitcoin in December of 2024 afterwards the Chief Financial Officers email was afraid Following the email accommodation the hacker was able to bluff emails to the CEO and appeal amounts accretion to 5000 BTC on three abstracted occasions BitPay proceeded to book an allowance affirmation for the bulk for the money but was denied in June of 2024 BitPay has back sued their allowance aggregation
With a amusing engineering advance such as this, alike if BitPay’s top assumption was application their own product, CoPay, this still could accept happened.
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BitPay Loses Bitcoin and Bitcoin Community
The complete capacity of the accusation filed by BitPay adjoin their allowance aggregation can be begin here. To see the allowance claim, drudge details, alternate emails amid BitPay and the allowance company, look here. For months, bottomless letters from bearding Reddit accounts claiming to be above BitPay advisers accept been talking of close agitation amid BitPay’s high management. This follows the apparent downsizing of personnel, which the management then attributed to abridgement of charge afterward the abeyance of the ESPN Bitcoin Bowl deal.
BitPay has pivoted abroad from Bitcoin merchant processing, an breadth that added companies such as CoinKite accept been able to booty a leaping accretion in. Added companies in the amplitude accept been able to bigger advantage their added products, such as in the case of Coinbase, or alike action their own POS systems, as in the case of CoinKite. BitPay is still about though, and abounding ample companies still action Bitcoin payments through BitPay. The money is still flowing, and it would be a net accident for the Bitcoin association if this old Bitcoin company were to go beneath from the burden from this revelation. On the added hand, the association ability lose acceptance in a aggregation that makes mistakes such as this.
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