Bad news I guess, acording to the web, BitPay is a U.S.-based company and U.S. companies are prohibited from engaging economically or by trade with persons or businesses based in countries under trade and economic sanctions set by the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). It seems like a really complicated thing and I do not think they will make it much easier.
Bad news I guess, acording to the web, BitPay is a U.S.-based company and U.S. companies are prohibited from engaging economically or by trade with persons or businesses based in countries under trade and economic sanctions set by the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). It seems like a really complicated thing and I do not think they will make it much easier.
I am coming to the same conclusion, so trying to get him to open a UK bank account, so I can just pay it into that instead.