EBAY might accept BITCOIN

[livingfree]

Still a "might" or "could.

Here's the other link from yahoo finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-could-soon-permit-bitcoin-223748215.html

Good news? Maybe. But we still need to wait until they've announced it officially and even it's already final and official, we still have to wait if it will drive the market bullish.

Such development news are good for us. I'll be happy if they ever announce it soon.

[xzone]

It has been spoken for many years that ebay will accept bitcoin, we have been seeing this news for years. Maybe they will give really positive news this time, I don't know, but I don't think it will have a big impact on the price. It will not cause us to see a new ath. If this news is true, it might raise a few thousand dollars, but I don't think it will be more

[Lucius]

There are probably dozens of such topics discussing whether a large company will accept Bitcoin today or tomorrow, but most still forget that we have moved quite a bit away from the idea of "Bitcoin as a currency", and today more than ever many follow the idea of "Bitcoin as a store of value". Even if the company in question accepts Bitcoin as a means of a payment tomorrow, do you think that customers would start paying en masse in that cryptocurrency?

The result of such a decision would be an instant price increase, similar to the case of PP last year - and today no one even mentions it. Maybe only about 5% of people in the world own cryptocurrencies, and I'm sure more than 50% of them have never paid for a product or service with it - which is why companies like this or similar don't see the point in adding cryptocurrencies.

[Leviathan.007]

I don't know from where you got this news about eBay because there was already a topic about it months ago and the case was closed because they didn't accept bitcoin as a payment method officially maybe you need to put the link of the article where you got the news from it, or maybe you are talking about the article from Cointelegraph about NFTs and eBay but that does not really mean they will accept bitcoin, however nd regardless of that there are many proxy markets where you can pay with bitcoin and they buy the product from eBay so accepting bitcoin from eBay should be a real problem right now.

[Bitstar_coin]

Still a "might" or "could.

Here's the other link from yahoo finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-could-soon-permit-bitcoin-223748215.html

Good news? Maybe. But we still need to wait until they've announced it officially and even it's already final and official, we still have to wait if it will drive the market bullish.

Such development news are good for us. I'll be happy if they ever announce it soon.

You seem to be misunderstanding the whole point of adoption, it is not always about price and bullishness, it is finally seeing btc being accepted to the point you can buy anything with it from anywhere in any online or offline store.
I think it is about time we stop looking at ' what could have, should have ' and just accept every gesture from non-bitcoin organizations to accept and use it to promote service, adoption must start somewhere and can come in different,  the appealing and the not so appealing, in the end the goal is the same.

[milewilda]

There should be some link supporting out this topic.
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/ebay-considers-crypto-payments-already-accepts-nfts-ceo-says

They had mentioned out about NFT's which means that they could possibly be dealing with the main crypto which is Bitcoin
but everything couldnt be still concluded.

[nullama]

Until they provide an address or a lightning invoice to send Bitcoin in their checkout it's just rumours.

[bbc.reporter]

I reckon much of the people's skepticism is directed to the wrong argument. This is not about if Ebay will accept or not accept bitcoin. Ebay will certainly accept it similar to Paypal did. However, the argument should be if Ebay would be issuing their own token or their own NFTs after accepting bitcoin hehehehe. This is a business tactic to enter the cryptospace and take money from it. The skeptical me thinks that they never cared to support it.

[cabron]

I reckon much of the people's skepticism is directed to the wrong argument. This is not about if Ebay will accept or not accept bitcoin. Ebay will certainly accept it similar to Paypal did. However, the argument should be if Ebay would be issuing their own token or their own NFTs after accepting bitcoin hehehehe. This is a business tactic to enter the cryptospace and take money from it. The skeptical me thinks that they never cared to support it.

Issuing their own token will be the option to take, it may not accept BTC or ETH at all.
 It's been discussed several times, there were links above since 2014 but nothing so far had done by eBay to accept BTC. In a recent interview when eBay CEO was asked if they'd be adding BTC and ETH, he just said eBay will be a platform for physical or digital but never mention accepting the currencies.

https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/ebay-could-soon-permit-bitcoin-ethereum-and-altcoin-payments-917077

[DanWalker]

Hey guys theres a news article stating that ebay might be accepting Bitcoin and other cryptos, if this happens then I believe itll be a game changer for the crypto world. Not sure how credible the article is , has anyone else heard anything similar. Also there was mention of an announcement on march 10 to confirm this. If positive,  We could see a new high even in these times uncertainty .

I also read it somewhere in the local newspaper, eBay will accept payments in bitcoin. They say they have been looking for ways to integrate crypto payments for years and now they have almost the end result. Please wait for the official announcement on March 10 from them. The purpose of integrating bitcoin is that they want to attract young users to their platform. If it comes to fruition, this will be good news for the bitcoin community and eBay users.

[tygeade]

It's already multiple times I heard Ebay want to accept Bitcoin, but the fact there's no real move to realizing that. Last year they did allow NFT trade [1] on their platform without create any rumor or hype, they didn't made any official announcement. I feel they're not brave to take a risk of accepting Bitcoin as alternative, maybe they want to let another big marketplace accept it first e.g. amazon.

Even Amazon is not making any move that shows that they are ready to accept Bitcoin at all, despite the rumors in the past that they were going to be accepting Bitcoin as a payment method on their platform. But, one thing I do know for sure is that whether these two choose to accept cryptocurrency or not,  there is still going to be growth, Bitcoin will keep growing and the adoption will keep on increasing, it doesn’t matter whether they would do it or not.

All these years Bitcoin has steady been growing, even when none of these institutions cares about it. So this shouldn’t be seen as any much of a big deal, the market  keep on moving regardless.

[Ararbermas]

As long there would be no confirmations from Ebay itself then it would just still remain as a rumor.
Just like on Amazon
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-denies-report-accepting-bitcoin-payment-2021-07-26/

It was been on the talk that they had been accepting bitcoin but it was denied.I dont know on what would be the situation
here on Ebay.

i agree, it's too hard to believe as long there's no confirmation from the company itself.

Actually it says they already accepting NFTS and might take crypto payment. What's that mean? seems they priorities NFT's than bitcoin payment.  

By the way this news isn't new and i heard these last year so many times wherein that ebay might accept bitcoin.. Probably now it still a rumors. Lol

[leea-1334]

Who cares about ebay honestly. I remember reading all about Microsoft accepting Bitcoin (and then they took it off) but that did not do anything for BTC price then. Until and unless a huge site accepts Bitcoin WITHOUT the processors as in,,, directly letting you pay to them with your wallet, accepting Bitcoin is no big deal.

The news should be: accepting Bitpay or whatever.

[Rruchi man]

Who cares about ebay honestly...

This news may just be another hype to be in the news especially now when bitcoins are trending for the way they have been instrumental for donations for Ukrainians who need relief. Ebay "might accept" is no where close to Ebay "has accepted" which is a better new for the community than just another mere speculation or probability. I look forward to hearing that they have accepted and not "might accept".

[dezoel]

Hey guys theres a news article stating that ebay might be accepting Bitcoin and other cryptos, if this happens then I believe itll be a game changer for the crypto world. Not sure how credible the article is , has anyone else heard anything similar. Also there was mention of an announcement on march 10 to confirm this. If positive,  We could see a new high even in these times uncertainty .

Cool, but this is not the first time that this is being talked about. This has been said several times, and there was even a time that a lot of people thought that Amazon was also going to be accepting Bitcoin, but they never did, and we also talked about eBay.

We don’t what plans they have all got, but let’s keep looking forward to when they will eventually start to accept Bitcoin as payment. When they do, I believe that it is going to be another huge success for the Bitcoin community, as the adoption would lead to more and more people getting to be aware of Bitcoin and also further adoption, which is what we all are steady looking for.

[bbc.reporter]

I reckon much of the people's skepticism is directed to the wrong argument. This is not about if Ebay will accept or not accept bitcoin. Ebay will certainly accept it similar to Paypal did. However, the argument should be if Ebay would be issuing their own token or their own NFTs after accepting bitcoin hehehehe. This is a business tactic to enter the cryptospace and take money from it. The skeptical me thinks that they never cared to support it.

Issuing their own token will be the option to take, it may not accept BTC or ETH at all.
 It's been discussed several times, there were links above since 2014 but nothing so far had done by eBay to accept BTC. In a recent interview when eBay CEO was asked if they'd be adding BTC and ETH, he just said eBay will be a platform for physical or digital but never mention accepting the currencies.

https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/ebay-could-soon-permit-bitcoin-ethereum-and-altcoin-payments-917077

I disagree. The will accept bitcoin, ethereum, dogecoin or any cryptocoin that will give their acceptance the most attention. Much of the community will larp adoption and use their coins to buy something on Ebay only to show everyone the screenshot in social media. After this, what would Ebay do? Issue a ebaycoin hehehehe. This is becoming similar to much of the ICO projects in the cryptospace where they need to issue a token to protect the project. However, issuance is less of utility, more of attention.

[cryptoaddictchie]

Maybe a hype it seems. If ebay did posted it on their website or confirm by them then theres a possibility. But if none we can only speculate that this might just another shilling for btc as the market seems going good inspite of the current russia ukraine war thats happening.

But just last night btc dumped. Due to a big holder of btc releases it. Looks like the guy cashing out and didnt noticed this ebay hype news. Whales really ignore fundamental trending.

[Obito]

At least make the effort of putting the link of the article so we can that you know? Now, I'm doubting whether it's true or not because you're basically doing a hearsay since there's no evidence provided but I'll suspend my belief and think that this is going to be a good thing for the market although I don't know about eBay as anonymity can be a problem there since trolls can do a fake bid or something like that.

[Slow death]

Hey guys theres a news article stating that ebay might be accepting Bitcoin and other cryptos

The funniest part of this type of article is that the guy who writes the article always says he was in contact with a reliable source in the company, but at the end of the day the company denies the rumor. I keep wondering why these news sites before publishing rumors whose source is a company employee because news sites simply don't ask the top manager if the news is true or false and only after confirming the veracity of the news do the sites of news would post the news, that way they would avoid publishing rumors that days later are denied

if this happens then I believe itll be a game changer for the crypto world.

In my opinion this will still take time to happen

Not sure how credible the article is

these articles are credible when the source is the company's own website or those involved publish something

[Oilacris]

At least make the effort of putting the link of the article so we can that you know? Now, I'm doubting whether it's true or not because you're basically doing a hearsay since there's no evidence provided but I'll suspend my belief and think that this is going to be a good thing for the market although I don't know about eBay as anonymity can be a problem there since trolls can do a fake bid or something like that.

There's still that "COULD". So to presume up then it isnt still finalized or get decided.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-could-soon-permit-bitcoin-223748215.html

Dont know on what they are still waiting or trying to prove out in terms of this payment system.
For now lets just wait for some announcement which it would be a definite one.