Braintree Activates Bitcoin Payments for US Merchants
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....
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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....
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....
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....
In their recent SEC filing, eBay and PayPal confirmed plans to allow merchants with a standard account to accept bitcoin payments through third-party processor Braintree. This company was acquired by eBay for $800 million in September 2013 and will now be part of PayPal Holdings. In the same SEC filing, eBay and PayPal have announced the formation of a new corporation called PayPal Holdings that will take over the businesses in eBay's payments segment. Meanwhile, eBay will continue to operate its marketplace business as a publicly traded corporation. "As two distinct publicly traded....
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....