PayPal Cashing In On Crypto | Buying Crypto Firms? | "launching its own digital currency..."?
PayPal customers will from early 2021 be able to use cryptocurrencies to shop at the 26 million merchants on its network. The company will also allow people to buy, sell and hold Bitcoin and other virtual coins using its online wallets.
The initial focus will be on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. The service will be available to PayPal account holders in the US in the coming weeks. Plans are afoot to expand this to Venmo and select international markets in the first half of 2021.
Dan Schulman, President and CEO, PayPal:
"The shift to digital forms of currencies is inevitable, bringing with it clear advantages in terms of financial inclusion and access; efficiency, speed and resilience of the payments system; and the ability for governments to disburse funds to citizens quickly."
"Our global reach, digital payments expertise, two-sided network, and rigourous security and compliance controls provide us with the opportunity, and the responsibility, to help facilitate the understanding, redemption and interoperability of these new instruments of exchange."
He also adds:
"We are eager to work with central banks and regulators around the world to offer our support, and to meaningfully contribute to shaping the role that digital currencies will play in the future of global finance and commerce."
According to Meltem Demirors, CSO at digital asset management firm CoinShares, PayPal could move into issuing its own cryptocurrency after officially entering the crypto industry earlier this week.
In an interview with CNBC’s Fast Money, Demirors said:
“I wouldn’t be surprised if, in the next six to 12 months, we see PayPal launching its own digital currency similar to a digital dollar that we see in many payments companies, in the Asia Pacific region in particular.”
She also added that PayPal last year officially left the Libra Association, the governing body of Facebook’s Libra digital currency project, claiming it wanted “to continue to focus on advancing our existing mission and business priorities as we strive to democratise access to financial services for underserved populations.”
$PYPL is cashing out on crypto. Coinshares' @Melt_Dem says this is how the move could impact Bitcoin and future of fintech. $BTC pic.twitter.com/0Zbm9TgoMF
— CNBC's Fast Money (@CNBCFastMoney) October 21, 2020
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According to Bloomberg:
PayPal in Talks to Buy Crypto Firms Including BitGo..
Do You Think We Will See PayPal-Coin?
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To be honest I have my doubts on this whole PayPal Bitcoin thing we have to remember PayPal is not an exchange they a payment provider which means they need a lot more legal and accounting to deal with if they are going to custody this asset
If Bitcoiners don’t use it which real BTC owned a won’t because we do in-chain then I don’t see this working out especially with wrapped BTC now taking hold on other chains!
If we do see transfer costs skyrocket it would make PayPal attractive other than that not much reason to use PayPal unless to convert and send to a real wallet
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I guess that is possible..
I can see a potential in that case if you could send your crypto to your PayPal account and withdraw your money easily.
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“strive to democratise access to financial services for underserved populations.” It’s not the access that is needed but necessity of income. Debt systems are the problem and not the solution.
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I definitely agree with you!
I doubt PayPal will make things much easier for crypto-users, but it would be really cool in case they did. I do like the fact that they invite a super-large audience into the crypto-world though.. If everything checks out.
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Shit buy PAL now,
Some idiot's bound to make a mistake thinking their buying PayPal coin!
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