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October 21, 2020Payments & adoptionAdoption & integrationdocumented

PayPal announces cryptocurrency buying and merchant use

PayPal said U.S. customers would be able to buy, hold, and sell bitcoin and use supported crypto balances at checkout.

Checkout payments were converted to fiat for merchants, so merchants did not directly receive bitcoin. The initial product was custodial and did not allow external wallet transfers.