BitPay processed $5k/day in May 2012 [3], $18k/day in Sep 2012 [3], $160k/day in March 2013 [1], $300k/day average through 2013 [2], and now $1.0M/day [4].
BitPay had 1k merchants in Sep 2012 [3], 10k by Sep 2013 [5], 30k by May 2014 [6].
BitPay raised $2M in May 2013 [7], and $30M in May 2014 [4].
They had a single office in Atlanta in 2012, now they have 8000 sq ft in Atlanta [8], plus offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York City.
BitPay had 7 employees in April 2013 [9], and 40 by May 2014 [8], and plans to have 100 by end of 2014 [8].
You can bury your head in the sand as much as you want, but their growth is obvious... Have you been to any Bitcoin conference? The number of new startups, flury of projects, funding rounds, etc, is mind-boggling. You belong to the super-minority who believes that "Bitcoin is seeing no consumer growth" (!)
BitPay had 1k merchants in Sep 2012 [3], 10k by Sep 2013 [5], 30k by May 2014 [6].
BitPay raised $2M in May 2013 [7], and $30M in May 2014 [4].
They had a single office in Atlanta in 2012, now they have 8000 sq ft in Atlanta [8], plus offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York City.
BitPay had 7 employees in April 2013 [9], and 40 by May 2014 [8], and plans to have 100 by end of 2014 [8].
You can bury your head in the sand as much as you want, but their growth is obvious... Have you been to any Bitcoin conference? The number of new startups, flury of projects, funding rounds, etc, is mind-boggling. You belong to the super-minority who believes that "Bitcoin is seeing no consumer growth" (!)
[1] http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/04/bitpay-processes-5-million-...
[2] http://www.paymentssource.com/news/the-companies-signing-up-...
[3] http://bitcoinmagazine.com/2298/bitpay-exceeds-1000-merchant...
[4] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-payments-pioneer-bitpa...
[5] http://paymentweek.com/bitpay-reaches-10k-merchants-mileston...
[6] http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/05/04/merchant-spotlight-sendowl...
[7] http://bitcoinmagazine.com/4626/bitpay-raises-2-million-led-...
[8] http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/05/21/bitpay-s-office-grand-open...
[9] http://blog.bitpay.com/2013/04/22/bitpay-expands-staff-to-se...