eBay To Challenge Bitcoin With New Patent Filing

By  |  January 7, 2014
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eBay is seeking to offer an alternative to Bitcoin with a proposed “secure token” that individuals may use to make purchases at both digital and brick-and-mortar stores. The company filed a patent application last year, but it was only recently published by the U.S. patent office. Will eBay find success where other eCommerce contenders such as Facebook have failed?

 

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    eBay is seeking to offer an alternative to Bitcoin with a proposed “secure token” that individuals may use to make purchases at both digital and brick-and-mortar stores. The company filed a patent application last year, but it was only recently published by the U.S. patent office. Will eBay find success where other eCommerce contenders such as Facebook have failed?

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