With the explosion in popularity of cryptocurrencies, many services and businesses have decided to adopt these digital currencies as a means of payment. This is especially true for Mastercard, Visa, or more recently PayPal, which has been used to pay in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in France since March 2021.
Since January 14, 2022, Tesla even accepts Dogecoin as a means of payment. This is an announcement that also caused a 25% increase in the price of the cryptocurrency. A few brands like Razer, for example, have recently announced their intention to accept digital currencies as payment. Gold, We just learned that eBay might be next on the list.
eBay wants to seduce Gen Z by accepting cryptocurrencies
E-commerce site CEO Jamie Iannone, in an interview with TheStreet, cryptocurrencies as a means of payment will soon become a reality. “We are about to finish our transition to manage payments, now we can process $85 billion in volume directly on our platform. This allows us to present ourselves to new forms of payment”, explains.
You’ll admit, the boss isn’t directly quoting cryptocurrencies, but in this interview, Reconsiders its intention to appeal more to Gen Z, that is, people born between 1997 and 2010. A segment of the population interested in cryptocurrencies. “We supported Google Pay and Apple Pay. We have a partnership with Afterpay in Australia, which is a very popular platform for Gen Z. […] We continue to evaluate other forms of payment we should receive on the platform. For example, we do not currently accept cryptocurrencies”, he comes to the conclusion.
In this respect, Jamie Ianonne announced that a meeting with investors will be held on March 10, 2022.Meanwhile “We’re going to go through all these things, payments, ads, and our target categories.” As you can see, eBay can make a very good announcement on this date.
Source: Street
