PayPal and Coinbase are partnering to enable Bitcoin payments

[qwertywarrior]

(insert : late to the party comments)

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/08/paypal-bitcoin/

 

 

Remember that One Touch mobile payment solution PayPal announced last month? It's ready -- Braintree CEO Bill Ready announced at Disrupt that customers with the PayPal app will have access to mobile payments starting today. The mobile payment platform is the first fruit Braintree has borne since PayPal acquired it last year, but it isn't the last: Ready says his company is laying the foundation for PayPal Bitcoin payments, too.

Ready says that PayPal is partnering with Coinbase to enable a Bitcoin-based payment system. "This would be PayPal's first foray into Bitcoin," he said. "But it's via the Braintree platform." That service is still in the works, he says, and it won't be handled exclusively through PayPal -- merchants interested in using the emerging system will need a Coinbase wallet to accept payments.

 

 

 

[Deletive]

Everyone other then Canada doesn't really care about bitcoins. It's nice but bitcoins aren't something I'd rather use over my debit/credit card for payments

[qwertywarrior]

Everyone other then Canada doesn't really care about bitcoins. It's nice but bitcoins aren't something I'd rather use over my debit/credit card for payments

[Deletive]

yeah but other then miners actually used bitcoins... like many non tech people.

[UnknownEngineer]

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I sit just me or is Finland darker than any of the other countries? I know there is a massive population difference between the US and Finland but still.

[qwertywarrior]

yeah but other then miners actually used bitcoins... like many non tech people.

it took me a while to understand what you meant by miners

 

i was like wtf do coal miners etc have to do with bitcoins

 

not many mine now unlike before

bitcoins for payment is growing at a fast rate though especially in California

[Sidiox]

I sit just me or is Finland darker than any of the other countries? I know there is a massive population difference between the US and Finland but still.

 I think you are correct, probably because of the low amount of people in finland (per square km), but I do think the Netherlands are just as dark.

Anyway it is interesting that they are implementing bitcoin, although I'm still not too sure if it can really be a viable payment option because of its unreliable value