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that's so garbage, I remember back in the early days, they were closing down accounts used in bitcoin exchanges. Getting money into bitcoin exchanges was a huge problem.

Besides, with bitcoin, why use paypal? Is paypal going go try to act as an exchange between btc and usd?

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"Besides, with bitcoin, why use paypal?"

If you have a bunch of Bitcoin money but need to do business with people who will only accept fiat currencies, you need some kind of exchange service. I suspect that is what Paypal will do.

Or they start to act like Bitpay, providing payment (or donation) services. In addition they could exchange BTC against other currencies at the current market rate from a market exchange like Btc-e, mt.gox or bitcoin-central.

Instead of Coinbase being the Paypal for Bitcoin...Paypal could be the Paypal for Bitcoin.

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