Google Wallet could get Bitcoin support soon?

[roxtar]

From an article in Amongtech.com: http://www.amongtech.com/google-wallet-could-get-bitcoin-support-soon/

I tend to agree.. a man in Vic Gundotra's shoes would not even bother responding, let alone CC the head of Google Wallet to an email from Joe Blow RE: Bitcoin if
Google was positioning itself to rollout a product/service that would rival bitcoin. Legal reasons, PR reasons.. whatever. Guys at the top of the food chain in these sorts of companies rarely respond to emails, and when they do they probably don't say or do anything that could potentially hinder future plans. (They assume anything they say to a consumer could be plastered allover the Internet and archived for eternity).

Gundotra was clearly not responding in a personal capacity, rather in his official position @ Google.

Very interesting.

[kolev]

Another fake email and a failed attempt for market manipulation. Even if it's not fake, well, everybody's "paying attention" if they are in the payments business, but this doesn't mean much.

[Tomatocage]

It looks fairly legit at this point, though not exactly as the OP worded it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vvfxz/google_confirms_their_payments_team_is_working_to/

[Moebius327]

It looks fairly legit at this point, though not exactly as the OP worded it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vvfxz/google_confirms_their_payments_team_is_working_to/

I agree. Be advised that this could just be similar to the fake amazon email from a couple of days ago. The only source at the moment is OP.

Also check some answers to the question "What would I want Google to do with Bitcoin?" here: https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=20e106