Bitcoin is the True Paypal
Ken Miller is the COO of Gem, a simple and secure Bitcoin platform for developers, and he is one of the original employees at PayPal. In a thoughtful article on TechCrunch, he outlines some possible features and consequences of the forthcoming integration of Bitcoin payment with Paypal (whose announcement was immediately followed by a rise in the price of Bitcoin), and some interesting similarities and differences between the two. The benefits of the integration are obvious. Merchants would be able to add a payment option that works with their existing checkout infrastructure, and so....
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