Baby Steps or Handcuffs? Crypto Pros Assess PayPal’s Bitcoin Play

Experts in blockchain technology and crypto take on the question: Could PayPal’s crypto integration help mass adoption? One of the most discussed topics within the crypto community recently has been PayPal’s announcement that its customers will be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. The service is expected to be fully rolled out early next year.The company’s goal “to increase consumer understanding and adoption of cryptocurrency,” as stated in its press release, seems to be a needed step in cryptocurrency popularization. Mainstream awareness of crypto still remains very low. As data....

Baby Doge was amongst the countless dog projects to claim the limelight with Doge. The meme coin that was built to help dogs has definitely seen better days. Price of Baby Doge had surged after Elon Musk had tweeted about the project. A tweet that was an ode to the beloved children’s song Baby Shark. […]

Four days ago, the crypto community and mainstream audiences caught a whiff of a new meme-based crypto asset called baby doge. The coin got a lot more attention when Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted about baby doge and almost immediately after the tweet, the asset’s value skyrocketed. Musk hasn’t said anything about baby doge since then, but the crypto asset has continued to climb higher in value. Weekly Stats Show Baby Doge Outshines Most Crypto Asset Market Performances Last week, Bitcoin.com News reported on the cryptocurrency called baby doge (BABYDOGE) after the CEO of....

While crypto firms have been trying to build the crypto equivalent of PayPal, the company itself will soon enter the industry. The crypto world has been buzzing with excitement over the last couple of days, and rightfully so. Bitcoin (BTC) is currently hovering around the $13,000 mark, while Ether (ETH) has once again safely tread past the $400 threshold in spite of the KuCoin exchange hack and the unfortunate legal events that recently unfolded around BitMEX. That being said, this latest surge can largely be attributed to the decision of online payments processor PayPal to finally enter....

Insights from PayPal’s first quarterly earnings report since launching crypto services.