{"id":41815,"date":"2021-05-03T19:18:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41815"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:27:28","slug":"ebay-weighs-accepting-cryptocurrency-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ebay-weighs-accepting-cryptocurrency-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay weighs accepting cryptocurrency payments."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American online marketplace eBay is considering accepting payments in digital assets, chief executive Jamie Iannone said on CNBC.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=560 height=349 src=https:\/\/player.cnbc.com\/p\/gZWlPC\/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&#038;byGuid=7000189104 frameborder=0 scrolling=no allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to Iannone, eBay is exploring options to add new payment options for its customers, including cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the company is interested in the non-fungible token sector and is exploring ways to organise NFT sales.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2019, crypto enthusiasts noticed an eBay advertisement bearing the words &#8216;Digital currencies. It\u2019s happening on eBay.&#8217; Later, representatives of the platform dismissed rumors of adding cryptocurrency support.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March 2021, Elon Musk announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-says-tesla-has-begun-selling-electric-cars-for-bitcoin\">start of Tesla&#8217;s electric-car sales<\/a> in the United States for Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the flexible-workspace provider WeWork <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/wework-to-accept-cryptocurrency-payments-in-partnership-with-bitpay\">announced the acceptance of payments<\/a> in the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American online marketplace eBay is considering accepting payments in digital assets, said chief executive Jamie Iannone on CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1198,548],"class_list":["post-41815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-payments","tag-ebay"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41816,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41815\/revisions\/41816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}