Bitcoin Fascinating, Thinking about Integration says PayPal President

Bitcoin Fascinating, Thinking about Integration says PayPal President

David Marcus, PayPal President stated that the company was thinking a lot about bitcoin. David Marcus, president of EBay Inc.'s PayPal unit, talks about mobile payment security and the prospects for virtual currency bitcoin. He speaks to Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Television's show called "The Pulse". When Guy Johnson questioned PayPal President about what was his vision on bitcoin, David Marcus answered: "I've been spending a lot of time looking at it! And it's truly fascinating actually; the way that the currency has been designed and the way the inflation is built in to pay for miners and....


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