PayPal Announces Bitcoin Integration Through Braintree
If PayPal's video hinting at Bitcoin acceptance wasn't enough for the cryptocurrency community, it looks like Braintree will soon be rolling out Bitcoin integration into their One Touch iOS and Android application. The app allows payments to be made swiftly and easily with the user's cell phone, just the same as Bitcoin. For those who may not know, PayPal is the mother company of Braintree. What was once seen as a battle between Bitcoin and PayPal has now been cleared as a partnership, as PayPal is showing public support for the move. CCN. It was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt in San....
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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....
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....
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....
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 has responded to questions about US merchant adoption of its development kit and clarified that customers can only pay in bitcoin through a Coinbase account. Merchants who use the payments software platform Braintree in the US can enable bitcoin payments through Coinbase starting today. Braintree said that it had integrated Coinbase into its software development kit, which it calls v.zero. This means that merchants who use the kit can now enable bitcoin payments quickly, Braintree said. "Bitcoin is growing in popularity for consumer and merchants alike ... the number of companies....