eBay CEO: PayPal “Exploring Ways” To Accept Bitcoin

By  |  May 5, 2013
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The Wall Street Journal reports that PayPal is exploring ways to accept Bitcoin as a payments option.

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    “It’s a new disruptive technology, so, yeah, we’re looking at Bitcoin closely,” John Donahoe, CEO of PayPal’s parent company eBay, told the Wall Street Journal. “There may be ways to enable it inside PayPal.”

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    Donahoe said his company has made no formal commitment to accept the currency in the future.

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