Ebay Files For Two Cryptocurrency Patents
Multinational e-commerce giant eBay has filed two cryptocurrency-related patent applications. Published by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week, the applications were both submitted on 18th April last year. According to the filings, eBay wants to patent a "distributed cryptocurrency unauthorised transfer monitoring system" and a "distributed cryptocurrency reputation system". Ebay's filings come after the USPTO published Coinbase's applications for nine bitcoin-related products and 21 Inc's filing for a digital currency mining circuitry patent. Speculation about eBay's....
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