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Business who accept payment online. People who use eBay.

Let's compare that to the number of people who know what Bitcoin is.

Not to mention that the vast majority of the cases of paypal "screwing the customer" are because something actually violates their ToS.

See the comment above comparing Paypal vs Bitcoin to Microsoft vs Linux

in the long run (10 years) either bitcoin or bitcoinlike replacement is going to trash Paypal in same manner that Linux, android etc is trashing Microsoft now, yes Microsoft still make billions but bitcoin is growing rapidly, many people wrote off Linux years ago too for very similar sounding reasons.

Yes, but your question wasn't a long run question, was it? It was a teenage-angst filled question: "Who cares about Paypal?" $44,000,000,000 in payments processed in three months - I think that is another way of saying, "Most of the people who pay for things online care about PayPal."

its not too far behind paypal already and growing rapidly in use http://coinometrics.com/bitcoin/btix

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