BitPay Hits the Coasts

Payment service provider (PSP) BitPay, which provides business solutions for the Bitcoin currency, announced the opening of two new offices. BitPay's new San Francisco and New York offices will support the company's Atlanta headquarters and focus on sales, implementation and operations support for its merchants.

"BitPay has many merchants accepting bitcoin throughout Silicon Valley, so we are thrilled to extend our exceptional sales and customer support by opening an office in San Francisco," says Paige Freeman, VP of Sales at BitPay. "We look forward to expanding into various markets both here in the U.S. and internationally."

BitPay now has a staff of 31 full-time employees worldwide, with 22 full-time employees located at the company's headquarters in Atlanta, six employees in Argentina, two employees in San Francisco and one employee in New York.

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