Widespread adoption of Payment Protocol will immediately improve the bitcoin payment experience. We created and released a simpler JSON interface for Payment Protocol which will make it easier for wallets to adopt these improvements. We are working with other wallet providers in the Bitcoin ecosystem to advance adoption of the Bitcoin Payment Protocol. Our goal isn't to limit users' wallet choices.
If your favorite wallet is not on this list, feel free to carefully use the invoice address to make a payment without Payment Protocol.
If you choose to pay from a peer-to-peer wallet, you will be able to copy and paste the receiving address and exact amount to send.įor the best payment experience, BitPay recommends using wallets that are updated to work with Payment Protocol.
Check out our video payment guide to learn how to pay to a payment URL.
If you choose to pay from a wallet that supports payment protocol, you will be able to copy and paste the Payment URL into the paying wallet or scan the QR code to trigger the payment prompt. We've contacted some of the reportedly affected websites and services for comment.BitPay invoices are both payment protocol and peer-to-peer compatible. However, it does appear that they have also been targeted by this malware. Update: The original article incorrectly referred to, Envato, and 163.com as cryptocurrency trading platforms. The lineup has already been the target of malware too researchers uncovered an M1-native version of the longstanding Pirrit virus back in February, and just weeks later it was revealed that Silver Sparrow malware was also running natively on the custom Apple Silicon. Although Apple only introduced its first M1 Macs in November, with the ARM-based chip currently limited to the latest models of the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini, the company has said it plans to ditch Intel entirely by the end of 2022. It's just as unsurprising that M1 MacBooks are the malware's latest target. The fact that XCSSET is now targeting cryptocurrency is hardly surprising, as the value of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin has surged in recent months. The malware is attempting to steal account information from multiple cryptocurrency trading platforms too, including Huobi and Binance, with abilities to replace the address in a user's cryptocurrency wallet with those under the hacker's control.