PayPal Finally Embraces Bitcoin

This integration will allow Braintree customers to accept bitcoin as a payment method.

For PayPal, it was a question of when. The payments company has long hedged on its stance on bitcoin--just a couple of weeks ago, it told Fast Company: "We do believe that bitcoin will play an important role in payments in the future but we have nothing to announce"--but as the virtual currency soared in valuation and adoption, it became harder to ignore.

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