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Quote from: dhenson on August 21, 2013, 11:46:50 PM

Quote from: jimbobway on August 21, 2013, 11:43:09 PM

This is bullshit. I have a friend that works at PayPal for over 3-4 years, and last time I spoke with him (two weeks ago) this is not the case. Nothing will happen before the end of this month.

Not to be contrary, but Paypal employs thousands of people in multiple locations. Your friend having not heard of the deal isn't proof of the absence of the deal.

Agreed. However, PayPal has a hierarchy of engineers and the top engineers write papers about various subjects. One of the latest papers, from what I was told, was that bitcoin would be included if it got more popular...and this was two weeks ago in Silicon Valley. I don't think PayPal will release news in the next week and a half. I could be wrong though...

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Quote from: jimbobway on August 21, 2013, 11:43:09 PM

This is bullshit. I have a friend that works at PayPal for over 3-4 years, and last time I spoke with him (two weeks ago) this is not the case. Nothing will happen before the end of this month.

Not to be contrary, but Paypal employs thousands of people in multiple locations. Your friend having not heard of the deal isn't proof of the absence of the deal.

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Quote from: niko on August 21, 2013, 11:24:31 PM

Quote from: mises on August 21, 2013, 11:08:28 PM

Yeah I doubt Paypal would do this.

Do what? I still don't see what PP would do with coins. Unless they want to be the new Gox.

“It’s a new disruptive technology, so, yeah, we’re looking at Bitcoin closely,” Donahoe said. “There may be ways to enable it inside PayPal.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/04/30/could-paypal-be-on-horizon-for-bitcoin/

Beyond that, they're getting heavy into mobile payments, and trying to stake a claim in brick and mortar POS systems.

They can piggyback off of Bitcoin's architecture for the mobile payments, and throw a "trusted" face on it. IMO that'd be a huge boost to adoption.

Concerning POS, we're all aware that Bitcoin poses a difficulty with POS purchases. If PayPal provides a solution to the 10 minute confirmation time it'd give them a huge leg up on the competition.

I don't know what PayPal wouldn't do with Bitcoin.

I'm not sure if I think it'd be a good idea if PayPay actually adopted Bitcoin - but I do know that the second it's confirmed, I'm pouring my fiat into BTC.

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Quote from: solex on August 03, 2013, 07:11:10 PM

I am encouraged. The insider's comments seem to have substance. The description of a long-running internal struggle within the PP management as to how to address the threat Bitcoin poses to their business is exactly what would be expected. They are aware that a lot of companies have been blown away by technology change. Look at Kodak being too late in adopting digital camera tech. It makes sense for them to try and offer a Bitcoin service even though it is not a perfect fit and overlaps part of PP's core function.

Edit: as mentioned above the reddit OP has been deleted there, so FWIW this is the text:

"I could get fired for this. I've taken the requisite steps to protect my identity. I am an insider that IS in the know. PayPal has been working on this for months.. and the bombshell news is going to be coming before the end of this month. Leaks/rumors will undoubtedly dribble prior.

I know for a FACT, that PayPal is going to be adding "bitcoin" to it's range of services. And the announcement/press release is to come sometime this month. Everyone at the offices of PayPal and all connected working on the project have been under strict orders to not speak about this publicly.. therefore I am taking the chance. I've worked for PP for close to 4 years now. This is NOT just 'water-cooler gossip'.

This is real, this is going to happen.

submitted by TheInsiderMan "

It will be obvious soon whether this was troll nonsense, or... not..

I have a friend that works at PayPal for over 3-4 years, and last time I spoke with him (two weeks ago) this is not the case. Nothing will happen before the end of this month.

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Quote from: LOL on August 21, 2013, 07:06:30 PM

Unlisted video on YouTube titled "What's the Deal with Bitcoins Anyway?":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrK-152xfy0

The catch is in the credits. "brought to you by ebaydeals."

Originally found here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ktj9e/whats_the_deal_with_bitcoins_anyway_video/

Something else of note, makes reference of $2 Billion market cap, while we're currently less than $1.5 Billion.

EDIT: an image: https://i.imgur.com/FqKQaxY.png

We have seen a lot of complex trolling/price manipulation attempts, recently with the Joe Lewis thing. I would say this is fake just like the original post, and meant to cause a bubble.

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Quote from: mises on August 21, 2013, 11:08:28 PM

Yeah I doubt Paypal would do this.

Do what? I still don't see what PP would do with coins. Unless they want to be the new Gox.

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Yeah I doubt Paypal would do this.

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Not that this is much insight, but the PayPal Labs website, https://www.paypal-labs.com/, is currently down.

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Interesting twist. First the "inside leak" in the beginning of August, and now a fairly professional video crediting "eBay Deals". There was also a reddit-post about one guy having a bitcoin-related dispute resolved in his favor by Paypal.

Not an enormous amount of evidence to make any strong claims, but enough to say that you weren't surprised if it actually turns out to happen. I guess we'll see shortly!

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Quote from: LOL on August 21, 2013, 07:06:30 PM

Unlisted video on YouTube titled "What's the Deal with Bitcoins Anyway?":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrK-152xfy0

The catch is in the credits. "brought to you by ebaydeals."

Originally found here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ktj9e/whats_the_deal_with_bitcoins_anyway_video/

Something else of note, makes reference of $2 Billion market cap, while we're currently less than $1.5 Billion.

EDIT: an image: https://i.imgur.com/FqKQaxY.png

I noticed that too but was at work and couldn't post. This is probably the closest we've had to a looming confirmation.

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Unlisted video on YouTube titled "What's the Deal with Bitcoins Anyway?":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrK-152xfy0

The catch is in the credits. "brought to you by ebaydeals."

Originally found here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ktj9e/whats_the_deal_with_bitcoins_anyway_video/

Something else of note, makes reference of $2 Billion market cap, while we're currently less than $1.5 Billion.

EDIT: an image: https://i.imgur.com/FqKQaxY.png

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Quote from: yayayo on August 05, 2013, 08:12:48 AM

Sooner or later Paypal has to deal with Bitcoin. Ignoring Bitcoin could kill them.

However that doesn't mean that this specific news is true.

Personally I prefer Paypal to vanish, because it's primarily a scammy mess.

ya.ya.yo!

TBH I dont see paypal having any problems with Bitcoins any time soon, Paypal is very easy to use compared to bitcoins and 99% of people online either use it or have heard about paypal.

If you talk to people who use the net about Bitcoins 99% of them say "Whats that"

I was talking to a freind of mine and even after showing him some sites and this forum he still did not get the concept of Bitcoin

My belief is until Bitcoin or any other cryptocoins become a lot more user freindly both with the mining side and the payment side of things for novice web users it will not hurt paypal at all, because paypals interface is just so easy to use.

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Sooner or later Paypal has to deal with Bitcoin. Ignoring Bitcoin could kill them.

However that doesn't mean that this specific news is true.

Personally I prefer Paypal to vanish, because it's primarily a scammy mess.

ya.ya.yo!

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PP would just do what they do now, they would hold the bitcoins in escrow till the buyer on ebay left feedback or a timer expired. In the event that a refund was required they could just send the coins back to the buyer or in the event that the escrow was released they would just take it from your bank account/CC.

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I can see this happening.

Initially, it would be BTC denominated accounts offered to users with registered bank accounts in countries where PayPal is satisfied that relevant legal requirements are met.

PayPal would probably restrict BTC transactions to/from accounts linked directly to real names and real bank accounts.

Looking longer term, ebay finds a way to accept bitcoin. Maybe some kind of auto escrow (but seems like that might be too much trouble) or just a million disclaimers that if you choose to pay in bitcoin, you get no protection (since reversing transactions will be nigh on impossible - unless their Ts and Cs let them take money from your registered bank account or credit card to cover bitcoin liabilities, but not sure that would hold up legally).

Either way, it looks like they're taking bitcoin seriously.

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Quote from: digitalfog on August 04, 2013, 05:29:36 PM

So I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at it, and it’s truly fascinating actually: the way that the currency’s been designed, and the way that inflation is built in to pay for miners, and all that is truly fascinating. I think that for us at PayPal, it’s just a question whether Bitcoin will make its way to PayPal’s funding instrument or not. We’re kinda thinking about it.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/24/paypal-president-is-fascinated-by-bitcoin-says-company-is-thinking-about-including-the-virtual-currency/

the claim is definitely corroborated, that's for sure. that's why i'm actually thinking it very possibly could be true. like, more likely true than not

how powerful is this news? http://www.mainstreet.com/article/money/investing/paypal-founder-invests-bitcoin
pretty powerful, and that was in may

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So I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at it, and it’s truly fascinating actually: the way that the currency’s been designed, and the way that inflation is built in to pay for miners, and all that is truly fascinating. I think that for us at PayPal, it’s just a question whether Bitcoin will make its way to PayPal’s funding instrument or not. We’re kinda thinking about it.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/24/paypal-president-is-fascinated-by-bitcoin-says-company-is-thinking-about-including-the-virtual-currency/

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Yeah I seriously doubt this is for real.

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Quote from: btbrae on August 04, 2013, 06:50:32 AM

Paypal won't add Bitcoin until Bitcoin has so much momentum of it's own that any given to it is negligible. It would be like Microsoft voluntarily installing Linux alongside it's own OS on every PC back in 1995, "just incase Linux left them in the dust".

I would add that in comparison to MS, PP is maybe slightly more proactive/less conservative, and would be more likely to jump on the bitcoin train earlier than other competitors would but in essence your comparison is spot on.

It's way too early for a company like PP to, openly!, make such a commitment. They would have very little to gain, and very much to lose. And they still have plenty of time to include bitcoin if they ever want to, when btc transaction volume becomes significant outside the holy trinity of [speculation+silk road+satoshidice].

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Quote from: elor70 on August 04, 2013, 09:26:09 AM

they are too capitalist to do this...

Huh? Bitcoin is a capitalist concept.

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