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 App Email Discuss Podcast has Checkout With Crypto, a service to allow its US customers to pay merchants in cryptocurrency, and will roll it out over the next few months, the company told&nbsp;Decrypt&nbsp;on Tuesday morning.“This is the first time you can seamlessly use cryptocurrencies in the same way as a credit card or a debit card inside your PayPal wallet,” PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told .Checkout With Crypto service will enable those holding cryptocurrencies on the platform to spend it with all of PayPal's merchants. Supported cryptocurrencies include , , , and . The payments giant will, however, convert the cryptocurrency to fiat money for the actual payment.“We think it is a transitional point where cryptocurrencies move from being predominantly an asset class that you buy, hold and or sell to now becoming a legitimate funding source to make transactions in the real world at millions of merchants,” Schulman added.PayPal won't charge their customers for swapping crypto to make the payment. However, there will be a conversion spread, meaning that it might swap the cryptocurrency at lower-than-market rates and pocket the difference—a common technique by crypto wallet apps with in-built conversions.At the checkout, PayPal will check if the user has enough balance in cryptocurrency to pay for the items. If they do, it will present cryptocurrency as a payments option.PayPal's move comes just a week after as a means of payment for its cars—and not long after in Bitcoin itself.PayPal initially announced that it would enable users to on the platform in October 2020. At the time, Schulman said in a statement that, "The shift to digital forms of currencies is inevitable," and that the firm was "thinking of all forms of digital currencies and how PayPal can play a role."Paxos Crypto Brokerage is powering on . Soon, millions of PayPal users will be able to buy/sell/hold , , ,— Paxos (@PaxosGlobal) The company has partnered with Paxo Crypto Brokerage to create its crypto-centric payments service, with Paxos crypto custody and trading features for the platform.PayPal's embrace of crypto marked a for the company, which had historically shied away from cryptocurrency. The news sparked a that's seen rise from under $12,000 at the time of the announcement, to its current price of nearly $60,000.However, not all cryptocurrency advocates were wholeheartedly in favor of PayPal's move into crypto; the platform's terms and conditions state that&nbsp; "the crypto in your account to other accounts on or off PayPal," prompting that PayPal was disregarding "fundamental tenets" of cryptocurrency.PayPal is planning to expand its crypto offering beyond the US in 2021, noting in February that it plans to expand to the UK in "a number of months."Do not miss any breaking news in the future, make sure to join .

 App Email Discuss Podcast has Checkout With Crypto, a service to allow its US customers to pay merchants in cryptocurrency, and will roll it out over the next few months, the company told&nbsp;Decrypt&nbsp;on Tuesday morning.“This is the first time you can seamlessly use cryptocurrencies in the same way as a credit card or a debit card inside your PayPal wallet,” PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told .Checkout With Crypto service will enable those holding cryptocurrencies on the platform to spend it with all of PayPal's merchants. Supported cryptocurrencies include , , , and . The payments giant...

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