I used bitcoins to buy gold through APMEX and was presented a BitPay invoice. I paid exactly what the invoice said to pay and the transaction was quickly confirmed. Regardless, the invoice timed out.
Isn't APMEX or some other website offering any other way for purchasing gold with Bitcoin?
BitPay is not relevant for some time especially after they added KYC verification, and there are much better self-hosted open source payment processors they can use like BTCpay server and others.
I am not supporting Coinbase in any way but I think they also don't ask for any verification for Coinbase Commerce.
(I think goldsilver.com should still accept Bitcoin for Gold purchase in US)