eBay CEO: "We will have to integrate digital currencies..."

[khme88]

http://video.cnbc[dot]com/gallery/?video=3000281677

He also mentiones he owns bitcoin himself. All in all, looks like eBay might be closer to Bitcoin adoptation than we thought.

[kokoarm]

Great news. Lets say Bitcoin in a year from now represents 10% of ebay sales - that would be about 1.6Billion dollars of BTC going through paypal each year.

The demand for BTC to use as a currency on ebay could push the price up to double what it is today?

If there is then broader acceptance with the real-world stores taking btc on their online sites then we could see 5-10k per coin in a year from now?

[RVienz]

if ebay accept a digital currencies
i will try to buy bitcoin with bitcoin

a laugh for my friend

[SirWilliam]

Wow, incredibly positive. EBAY CEO owns Bitcoin and sees it inevitable that it will be integrated into EBAY and PAYPAL? CNBC talking about how serious the CEOs of major tech companies are about Bitcoin and how much they believe in it? The big B starting to get some major respect it seems...

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000281677

[Musent]

They have been speculating for awhile now. Since they are making so much money on sales, they need this and would be idiotic to turn away.

[racht202]

It would be great if ebay starting taking bitcoin like overstock does.

[Pierre11]

Yes it's a very good new if Ebay accept sell cryptocurrency in all the country of the world.

[bitsmichel]

They got many bitcoin products in their stores, like mining hardware.  It could increase the profit for eBay, so its a good move 

[jambola2]

You guys need to listen closely.

"At Paypal we will have to integrate digital currencies into our wallet"

NOT EBAY , BUT PAYPAL ITSELF !
What is going to happen to the anti-paypal stuff now ?

[kokoarm]

Once they start paying tax on these coins Governments around the world are going to become more accepting of digital currency.

[bryant.coleman]

This is not the first time that he is making positive remarks about Bitcoin. But the most important question is whether he has the support of the majority of the board members or not. 

[vaporker]

You guys need to listen closely.

"At Paypal we will have to integrate digital currencies into our wallet"

NOT EBAY , BUT PAYPAL ITSELF !
What is going to happen to the anti-paypal stuff now ?

I was wondering myself...why would it need to be integrated with Paypal? He also mentions peer 2 peer transactions afterwards.

[Guido]

awesome

[RodeoX]

Now if we can get MySpace and America Online we can have an internet do-over with bitcoin.
 

[hardshot]

Now if we can get MySpace and America Online we can have an internet do-over with bitcoin.
 

MySpace? Isn't that dead already?

[Mageant]

I wonder if Ebay/Paypal accepting Bitcoin will kick off the next price bubble?

[Ron~Popeil]

Nice! I am no fan of paypal and would never use it again but This is good news for bit coin. This snow ball is starting to roll.

[minimalB]

Ebay CEO is talking about Bitcoin for a long time now and nothing happened... however, they are more and more open about integrating it into paypal... my guess is  __/   <- graph : )

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[Meuh6879]

crap, an other bump of price ...