Quote from: kurb3l on September 08, 2014, 08:52:54 PM

Normally i'm a silent reader but the price swings lately - especially today - made me register for an account.
Are we really going to "da moon" because of today's news? I have been holding coins for the last two months so i would sure hope for a bit of an upswing.
Clearly PayPal is a huge payment processor and them using bitcoins is another big advertisement for bitcoin.
I'm just not sure if braintree/paypal will just act as a gateway to coinbase or what their plan is.
My understanding is that people will be abled to use their paypal account for payments in another "foreign currency", the XBT/BTC/COIN.
In that case people won't have to learn how bitcoin works. In my opinion, bitcoin will go further into the background.
PayPal will buy new coins each time someone buys a product and quickly after that the merchant will dump these coins again.
People won't need to buy coins on their own and fear a fluctuating exchange rate.
While i see the huge advantage for the non-techies, i don't think it will have a huge impact on the price.
Please share your views on this, i'm interested in your opinions.

I haven't caught up to the thread yet, but I just wanted to say

Welcome to the best thread in the universe (of bitcointalk.org)

Bitcoin is not easy enough for regular people, like iPhone users and such.

I think bitcoin's place is in the background, just like regular people are never going to understands how packets are routed, regular people are never gonna really understand bitcoin.

They need a slick app that makes things easy. Apple and visa are announcing such an app tomorrow apparently, pay pal is just trying to steal some thunder.

Might take a few months, but don't get discouraged, personally I am buying the 500 CAD level every time it gets hit on virtex, with whatever I can afford. New fiat won't be available till the end of the month, I doubt the price will be this affordable by then. Cry

This is not investment advice.