Bitcoin merchant service BitPay temporarily stops using Mt. Gox for Bitcoin exchange rate

Julia Dixon on June 23, 2013

Via the BitPay website…

Effective immediately, BitPay has temporarily stopped using Mt. Gox for determining the exchange rate for our invoices.

 The rate calculation that BitPay uses for each invoice is now as follows:

 1.  Pull the full Level II market depth, on the bid side, from multiple exchanges.

 2.  Merge the market depths into one Consolidated Level II table.

 3.  Calculate the blended clearing price for the amount of the invoice, assuming an auto-routing market sell order across all exchanges, with zero commission.

BitPay is committed to offering the fairest possible rate to the buyer, while minimizing our counterparty risk.

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Julia Dixon is the editor of DGCMagazine and is responsible for the quality of all content and produces a large amount of original content for the site. Julia holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and is an avid student of Austrian monetary theory, with her favourite being the works of Murray Rothbard.

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