This is cool and scary at the same time. More adoption is nice, but if PayPal will become the #1 Bitcoin exchange, it means even more centralization in the exchange ecosystem, and if it shortly after launch has as much volume as one of the bigger exchanges, it could easily take the top spots in the future.
Yes and no.
Paypal will become the number one (maybe!?) to buy cryptos but it will not become the number one in terms of trading, at least not with a 1.5% minimal fee for orders over 1000+ and 2% for 200$. This is not suited for trading at all. So my guess is that we're going to have what we now know as exchanges focus solely on trading and far less on people buying/selling once and withdrawing their coins.
Soon a lot of people who only interacted with Bitcoin through PayPal will come to this forum, and our job will be to educate them about the dangers of centralization, custodial wallets and KYC.
Sorry but this made me laugh, a bit rude from me since I'm sure you were honest about your good intentions.
But educate? The ones that would have been A+ college material have already educated themselves, the ones that will come after this will not give a single damn about those, they will care about how much % they can gain, you'll be doing them a greater favor by educating about Ponzi schemes, cloud mining scams, fake exchanges offering above-market prices and many many other first.
Right now we're still quite safe as this is available only in the US, but wait till it hits the world, there will be an avalanche of scams.
My point is that with the current situation, PayPal isn't selling Bitcoin to users if they are restricted to the platform. When the asset they call "Bitcoin" can be renamed to anything and still function in exactly the same way, they're not really selling Bitcoin: they're selling something that moves with the price of Bitcoin on PayPal and trades accordingly on their system, but is absolutely unrelated to the coin itself.
But if they don't, and I'm quite sure they are doing this with Paxos, then when users might want to sell, they will be the ones needing to buy back those CFD at 3 times the prices they have sold them. Worth the risks? I doubt it. They charge users enough in fees for it, running not even a fractional reserve but a clear Ponzi scheme with a public listed company is something that will win all Darwin's Awards this century.