{"id":9934,"date":"2014-01-20T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:49","slug":"ebay-uk-to-allow-bitcoin-sales-in-virtual-currency-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/ebay-uk-to-allow-bitcoin-sales-in-virtual-currency-category","title":{"rendered":"eBay UK to allow Bitcoin sales in \u2018virtual currency\u2019 category"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"singleAuthor\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profile\/Dara_Kerr\/\" rel=\"author\">Dara Kerr \u2014 cnet<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"singleAuthor\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"singleAuthor\"> It seemed like it was only a matter of time before e-commerce giant eBay and its payment platform PayPal addressed the sale and use of Bitcoin on its sites. And, despite <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1001_3-57615537-92\/european-banking-officials-bitcoin-may-not-be-your-friend\/\">concern from government regulators<\/a>, it appears the company believes in virtual currencies \u2014 so much so, that it will soon start allowing their sale on its UK site.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, PayPal President David Marcus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidmarcus\/status\/422632849670299648\">tweeted<\/a> \u201cTo clarify: we have no policies against using PayPal to sell Bitcoin mining rigs. We don\u2019t support any currency txn whether fiat or BTC\u2026 for a host of regulatory issues. But we treat BTC and any FX txn the same way. We\u2019re believers in BTC though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57617502-93\/ebay-uk-to-allow-bitcoin-sales-in-virtual-currency-category\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dara Kerr \u2014 cnet It seemed like it was only a matter of time before e-commerce giant eBay and its payment platform PayPal addressed the sale and use of Bitcoin on its sites. And, despite concern from government regulators, it appears the company believes in virtual currencies \u2014 so much so, that it will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47278,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions\/47278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}