{"id":630434,"date":"2026-07-16T22:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=831621"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:40:35","slug":"bitpay-wins-mica-approval-as-europe-builds-a-unified-crypto-payment-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/bitpay-wins-mica-approval-as-europe-builds-a-unified-crypto-payment-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitpay Wins MiCA Approval as Europe Builds a Unified Crypto Payment Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/shutterstock_1359313142.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bitpay logo and keyboard\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Bitpay has secured authorization under the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, giving its Dutch subsidiary a regulatory base to expand cryptocurrency and stablecoin payment services across the bloc. The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets authorized Bitpay B.V. as a crypto-asset service provider, or CASP, the company announced Thursday. The approval covers regulated cryptocurrency [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitpay has secured authorization under the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, giving its Dutch subsidiary a regulatory base to expand cryptocurrency and stablecoin payment services across the bloc. The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets authorized Bitpay B.V. as a crypto-asset service provider, or CASP, the company announced Thursday. The approval covers regulated cryptocurrency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":630435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-630434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-regulation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}