PayPal Partners with BitPay, Coinbase, and GoCoin

PayPal Partners with BitPay, Coinbase, and GoCoin

Once seen as a direct competitor, PayPal has warmed up quite a lot to Bitcoin. Last year, PayPal's president David Marcus stated that his company was "thinking about" bitcoin. Then, just recently, PayPal announced bitcoin integration through one of its smaller projects - Braintree. And today, PayPal has partnered with three major bitcoin payment processors - BitPay, Coinbase, and GoCoin, to allow PayPal's digital goods merchants to accept bitcoin payments. PayPal Payments Hub. The PayPal Payments Hub is the company's alternative payments platform used exclusively for digital goods such as....


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