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On a long enough timeline, all companies will become Bitcoin companies. Some have just been there from the very start.

PayPal, back when it was still owned by eBay, was an unknowing bedrock for the very first Bitcoin exchanges.

And considering how often the two were lumped together — a tech duo flipping the script on online payments — Bitcoin and PayPal were almost adoptive siblings. One radical, one moderate.

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“Commerce on the internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments,”…

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