Coinbase Partners With Braintree Payments
Following up on news from last month that noted that eBay subsidiary Braintree Payments was exploring a bitcoin integration comes the news that the payment company has partnered with San Francisco-based Coinbase. The partnership will allow Braintree's portfolio of clients to accept bitcoin on a number of different devices. According to Coinbase, "Developers at Coinbase and Braintree will be working together closely to complete the integration in the next few months." The first to announce the news was Braintree CEO Bill Ready at TechCrunch Disrupt - a popular event in the technology....
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Following weeks of rumors, Braintree has announced that it will soon enable customers to accept bitcoin. Braintree, a subsidiary of eBay-owned PayPal that was acquired for $800m in 2013, revealed on its blog that it intends to release a software development kit (SDK) that developers and merchants can use to add bitcoin to their existing payment methods. The integration is the result of a partnership with Coinbase, which was first reported to be in talks with Braintree about a potential partnership this August. Further, the news was officially announced at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco....
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....
Braintree — a subsidiary of Paypal — announced its partnership with Coinbase last fall, confirming rumors of Paypal getting involved with Bitcoin. Now, Braintree has created a v.zero SDK as an open platform, giving merchants access to the most sophisticated payment tools and the most relevant payment methods via a single integration. Currently, Coinbase is one of the main Bitcoin payment processors, handling about 2.2 million wallets and 38,000 merchants globally. Braintree is a paypal company which lets companies all over the world accept payments online and make purchases easily. The....
Payments firm Braintree, a subsidiary of eBay and PayPal, is "in talks" with Coinbase and several other processing companies on the possibility of accepting bitcoin, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Braintree provides payments software for a number of popular mobile applications including Uber, Airbnb, and GitHub. The company, which was acquired by PayPal for $800m in December last year, was processing up to $12bn in payments annually at the time - $4bn of that via mobile apps. No matter which bitcoin processor Braintree may choose, accepting digital currency would represent....