Paypal to start accepting Bitcoin?
After a short Paypal video talking about mobile payment systems that briefly mentioned using Bitcoin for the aforementioned payment systems, Braintree has now confirmed the rumors of Bitcoin integration. Timing seems all too well if you consider that Apple also released their new iterations of products, including and Apple payment system. Braintree is owned by Paypal, which also happens to be owned by eBay, so the possibility of finally using Bitcoin for eBay transactions may finally come true. Braintree also supports many other startups, one prominent startup being Uber, so the ability to....
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New reports this Thursday evening indicate that eBay subsidiary Braintree Payments may be looking to integrate bitcoin acceptance in the very near future, according to the Wall Street Journal. Braintree Payments operates as a unit of PayPal (which eBay owns), and the word is that PayPal executives have been meeting with bitcoin payment processors like Coinbase to facilitate bitcoin transactions on the Braintree network, according to people familiar with the matter. Despite the meetings, no agreements of any sort have been reached. As for eBay and PayPal, there hasn't been any word on....
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