Posts with the TAG # paypal

PayPal and its Venmo mobile payment service plan to provide their 325 million users with the opportunity to directly purchase cryptocurrencies.

This was reported by CoinDesk, citing sources familiar with the situation. The publication notes that at the moment PayPal can be used to withdraw funds from some cryptocurrency sites, but the service has never been used to purchase cryptocurrencies before.

The head of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange, Brian Armstrong, believes that in order to take digital assets, it is necessary to reduce volatility, as well as to improve the scalability and use of coins.

Bitcoin will be ahead of other payment systems, such as Visa and MasterCard, within ten years, if the growth of the network continues at the same pace.

DataLight made such a forecast in a research comparing Bitcoin with traditional payment systems, which also included PayPal, noting the rapid development of cryptocurrency since its inception in 2009.

PayPal co-founder Luke Nosek during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos said that the project team initially planned to create a digital currency that would have technological advantages similar to cryptocurrencies, namely independence from banks and the government.

Answering a question about whether PayPal and WeChat Pay solved a problem related to online transactions, or perhaps cryptocurrency can deal with it, Nosek said:

"Many people don't know this, but the initial mission of PayPal was to create a global currency that was independent of interference by these, you know, corrupt cartels of banks and governments that were debasing their currencies. "

The Coinbase platform has launched the Coinbase Commerce service, which aims to help online shops accept payments in the four leading cryptocurrencies. As noted in the company, Coinbase Commerce ensures the receipt of payments in cryptocurrencies, controlling, verifying and confirming the transactions of customers in each unit.