You don’t actually own the bitcoin you buy on PayPal. But you can still make a profit

The digital payments company made a big push into crypto last year, and the platform now allows users in the U.S.

Typically, when you purchase bitcoin, you are given two things to make that ownership official: A public and a private key pair.

dollars with Bank of America,” said Asheesh Birla, a general manager at Ripple.

The exchange filed for bankruptcy and lost 750,000 of its users’ bitcoins, plus 100,000 of its own.

Revolut, often characterized as the PayPal of Europe, capitulated earlier this week and now allows clients to withdraw bitcoin.

Purchasing bitcoin via PayPal has been compared to buying a financial contract.

Despite short-term gains, Greenspan cautions that cryptocurrencies allow people to circumvent PayPal’s services.

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