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Stripe says it's open to accepting crypto for payments, three years after ending bitcoin support
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Stripe isn't ruling out accepting cryptocurrency as a method of payment in the future, according to co-founder John Collison.
The online payments company ended support for bitcoin payments in 2018, citing the digital coin's notoriety for volatile price swings and a lack of efficiency in making everyday transactions.
«Crypto obviously means a lot of different things to a lot of different people,» Collison said at a CNBC-moderated panel at the Fintech Abu Dhabi festival on Tuesday.
Collison said there were some aspects to crypto — such as its use as a speculative investment — that are «not that relevant to what we do at Stripe.»
But, he added: «There have been a lot of developments of late with an eye to making
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