PayPal made waves in the crypto market today after announcing that its users will now have the ability to buy, sell, and pay for items using digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Despite this news's overt bullishness, it is important to note that some analysts are calling it a "Nothingburger" - pointing to some fine print that reveals users who buy BTC on PayPal won't be able to withdraw it.
PayPal embraces crypto with the rollout of a new service.
There have long been rumors circulating about PayPal potentially working on a crypto-related feature for their platform.
Today - much to the surprise of crypto users - they announced the imminent rollout of crypto trading on PayPal.
One of the most interesting features of this new service is the ability to use one's digital assets as a means of payment at over 26 million global merchants that accept PayPal.
"[PayPal] today announced the launch of a new service enabling its customers to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal account, and signaled its plans to significantly increase cryptocurrency's utility by making it available as a funding source for purchases at its 26 million merchants worldwide.
The devil is in the details: Fine print may make PayPal news a "Nothingburger".
Shortly after the noise and hype surrounding this new service's launch faded, some analysts began noticing that the fine print explains that users who buy crypto via PayPal will not be able to transfer it off of PayPal.
"OK, we can forget this Paypal 'news'. 'Crypto in [the Paypal] account cannot be transferred to other accounts on or off PayPal.' So, this is all a big PayPal nothing burger, just entries in a central PayPal database, nothing to do with Bitcoin."
Here's why some analysts view PayPal's crypto news as a "nothingburger"
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