At the beginning of June this year, Paypal posted a job opening for a Blockchain Research Engineer. The job description asked for experience and skill sets in many disciplines but touched one in particular: “Leading discovery for use cases that can further PayPal’s understanding of blockchain and specific blockchain implementations.”
This information piqued a lot of interest in the financial sector and got many to wonder if Paypal, and its associated payment application Venmo, could soon offer crypto-currency payments and wallets.