Η PayPal, the eBay online bank widely used around the world, will begin to accept bitcoins soon.
"We're announcing RayPal's first engagement with Bitcoin," said Bill Ready, head of eBay's Braintree unit. During of his speech at the Techcrunch Disrupt SF conference, Ready added that in the coming months, they would have to start trading on bitcoin.
RayPal's "camouflaged" move seems to be very smart at the moment. It does not accept digital currency directly but through a subsidiary. This does not legitimize the currency, but it does not expose the company, at least until things are clear. On the other hand, the managers of the company probably could not "see" a lot of money flowing and did not have access.
Braintree is a processor payments for mobile and websites and will partner with Coinbase and Bitcoin payment sites to process digital currency transactions. The service is already used by Uber, airbnb and StubHub, but is available to the more than 150 million users it has PayPal currently.
It's a pretty exciting development, given that it will become possible for some of the fastest growing applications to use cryptocurrency seamlessly. It also makes it more feasible for her to integrate PayPal This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. Bitcoin in the near future.
For those who don't know, Braintree was purchased by eBay for $800 million in 2013 in an effort by the giant company to expand its business and mobile transactions.
Let's say that Bitcoin began to be accepted around the world. Governments have begun to reconsider their views on the issue. Some are quite lenient, but there are still many who have banned them permanently Bitcoins due to their instability.