PayPal is often seen as an enemy to the bitcoin ecosystem. But the man heading the company, David Marcus, seemingly has some high hopes for bitcoin's future. Speaking at LeWeb in Paris on Tuesday, Marcus suggested that bitcoin has a better chance of catching on in the future than a technology....
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....
Bitcoin has more potential to revolutionize commerce than near-field communication (NFC) technology does, PayPal president David Marcus said at the LeWeb conference in Paris today. Marcus stressed he is a big fan of bitcoin and has a personal stash of the digital currency, but said the majority....
This is really interesting. The PayPal president Marcus David has gone out in public telling us that they have no policies against using PayPal to buy and sell mining rigs AND that he and PayPal actually believes in Bitcoin. If this is good news or not for the current Bitcoin price is unsure. It....
David Marcus, head of Facebook Financial (F2) who is in charge of crypto project Diem, formerly Libra, believes that the Chinese government cracking down on bitcoin mining is “a great development” for the cryptocurrency. Many people in the crypto space agree with him.....
It's most definitely interesting to see the chief of a financial company say something decent about bitcoin. After all, one would expect a CEO to do what he or she could to destroy the competition. But David Marcus, PayPal president, is different. In a blog post Wednesday, Marcus said that he....
Earlier today, Andrew Aude, a Stanford Computer Science student, posted to twitter with pictures of Facebook Messenger's new P2P "FB Payments" functionality. Aude and other commentators likened Facebook's new payment system to SquareCash or Venmo. FB Payments has been in the making for a long....
Earlier today, David Marcus (The current President of Paypal) tweeted: To clarify: we have no policies against using PayPal to sell Bitcoin mining rigs. We don't support any currency txn whether fiat or BTC... ...for a host of regulatory issues. But we treat BTC and any FX txn the same way.....
PayPal president David Marcus took to twitter Monday morning to make some things clear on his company's stance on digital currency bitcoin. His message comes as seemingly the entire bitcoin community has convinced themselves the money transmitter is anti-bitcoin, with policies that do not permit....
eBay chief executive John Donahoe has confirmed the e-commerce giant is looking at ways to integrate bitcoins into its PayPal payments network. "It's a new disruptive technology, so, yeah, we're looking at bitcoin closely," Donahoe said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "There may be....
The social media giant has rebranded in hopes of scoring regulatory approval. Global regulators should grant Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Diem “the benefit of the doubt” to greenlight its launch in 2021, a top executive at Facebook Financial said.David Marcus, the head of Facebook Financial,....
Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) space has received a lot of attention in recent months. This sector of the crypto space has seen a rapid uptick in capital involved as the yields and incentives to use these DeFi applications have increased at a dramatic clip. Data shows that the....
The topic of bitcoin is going far beyond niche web forums, social sharing websites, and enthusiasts' circles. It's already become a talking point in the finance industry (and others). And with more and more companies discussing how bitcoin can fit into their future plans, we're getting....
The Carlyle Group’s co-founder, David Rubenstein, says that the idea of the government stopping cryptocurrency from being something that investors want is unrealistic. He believes that cryptocurrency is here to stay. It’s not going away as “It’s clearly something that the....
David Berger, founder and CEO of the Digital Currency Council (DCC), will speak at Inside Bitcoins New York on April 29, 2015, Day 3 of the event. David shares some insights into the event and speaks on behalf of the company’s continuing education partnership with Inside Bitcoins. At Inside....
In a step to decentralize the state's authority to give a stamp of approval on love, Joyce and David Mondrus have gotten married on the blockchain. How did David get married on the blockchain? Those who attended the wedding were shown a QR code that linked to the transaction where the data....
In a step to decentralize the state's authority to give a stamp of approval on love, Joyce and David Mondrus have gotten married on the blockchain. How did David get married on the blockchain? Those who attended the wedding were shown a QR code that linked to the transaction where the data....
Bitcoin has been noted in glowing terms by industry moguls, lets take a look of what they had to say about it… Bill Gates. “A technological Tour De Force” David Marcus Pay Pal CEO. “We are considering using bitcoin as a funding instrument” Gottfried Leibbrandt SWIFT CEO. “Don’t see why we could....
Businesses that accept Bitcoin are blooming up everywhere. Sometimes it can irk me that some businesses accept Bitcoin but do nothing to promote it; however, this is not the case for the co-founders of the budding flower marketplace, BloomNation.com. I spoke with two of the co-founders, Farbod....
The president of PayPal says he's intrigued by bitcoin and is thinking about adding the digital currency as a funding instrument for the popular online payments processor. "I've been spending a lot of time looking at it (bitcoin), and it's truly fascinating the way the currency has been designed....
Facebook announced that its Messenger users will be able to pay chat bots directly from the app, without having to launch third-party websites. US-based Messenger users can already send payments to each other within the app. Until now, however, it wasn’t available for making purchases from....
Whether it will be in just a matter of years or of decades, the possibility of regular people taking trips into space the same way they travel to the far reaches of the globe could become a reality within our lifetime. The question is: when you set off for such a trip, what do you pack along for....
PayPal isn't exactly a huge fan of Bitcoin. Understandably so, since Bitcoin poses a threat to the entire company. PayPal specialises in online payments, but people can just skip the PayPal middleman with Bitcoin transactions. Simply selling mining equipment on eBay, PayPal's parent company, can....
Economist David Rosenberg has pleaded “ignorance on bitcoin” after saying that the cryptocurrency was in a massive bubble. He admitted that bitcoin has exceeded his expectation but he still prefers gold because he understands it a lot better than bitcoin. ‘Bitcoin Has Exceeded....
Designed to balance on-the-go payments with secure storage, Sigsafe is an electronic key that allows bitcoin transactions between near-field communication (NFC) devices. "Securely storing your bitcoins is too complicated right now!" Sigsafe's architect Peter R told CoinDesk. It was for this....
Keeping up with the privacy fad sparked by Edward Snowden, Facebook Messenger, the popular social network’s equally popular messaging app, has enabled end-to-end encryption for “secret conversations.” Messenger continues its bid to become (or remain) the number one messaging app in the world,....
Once seen as a direct competitor, PayPal has warmed up quite a lot to Bitcoin. Last year, PayPal's president David Marcus stated that his company was "thinking about" bitcoin. Then, just recently, PayPal announced bitcoin integration through one of its smaller projects - Braintree. And today,....
The president of eBay has revealed that his company is preparing to expand the range of digital currencies it accepts. In an interview with the Financial Times, John Donahoe even went as far to say that PayPal could, one day, incorporate bitcoin. He said digital currency is going to be a "very....
Bitstamp traders based in the Netherlands now have even more regulatory hoops to scale before being able to withdraw their funds. Crypto exchange platform Bitstamp is reportedly demanding additional Know Your Customer compliance steps for Dutch-based users.According to a notice sent to Twitter....
After reaching $20 Billion in mobile transactions, PayPal President appeared on Bloomberg TV's "The Pulse," with Guy Johnson to discuss mobile security and share his thoughts on the Bitcoin currency. This morning, PayPal President, David Marcus, expressed his fascination with Bitcoin and opened....