According to records, PayPal holds crypto worth $ 1 billion in his balance sheet

According to records, PayPal holds crypto worth $ 1 billion in his balance sheet
According to a 10-Q submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the online payment giant PayPal kept cryptocurrencies worth almost $ 1 billion in its balance until the end of the first quarter of 2023.
Customer crypto in the green area
The Submission dated to the quarterly period until March 31, 2023, showed that PayPal at this point Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (Eth), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC) of its customers worth $ 943 million in his balance sheet. None of his cryptocurrencies belong to someone other than their customers.
This is an increase in the crypto assets of customers by $ 339 million $ previous quarter . This is largely in line with the increase in Bitcoin by 72 % during this period, from $ 16,547 on December 31 to $ 28,478 on March 31.
The current crypto division of the company consists of BTC worth $ 499 million, $ 362 million in ETH and the remaining $ 82 million in BCH and LTC.
PayPal in his 10-Q explained that it enables customers to buy, receive, receive and maintain these cryptocurrencies and to use the proceeds from their respective sales to buy goods and services at the cash register.
"We conduct the internal recording of the crypto-assets of our customers, including the amount and type of crypto-assets that each of our customers have," said Pay
PayPal also said that up to a lifespan of $ 50,000 will protect it completely from unauthorized crypto purchases or sales as well as unauthorized crypto transfers. The payment company enabled its customers withdraw crypto-assets in personal wallets in June. Dan Schulman, CEO of PayPal, said during a web summit in 2020 that he was "optimistic about cryptocurrencies of all kinds" after he had admitted that he personal bitcoin in 2019. In March 2022, he added that CBDCs, stablecoins and digital wallets "will redefine a large part of the financial world in the future". PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has shown special respect for the power of Bitcoin in the past and suspected that this could be the case undermined US dollars. However, his VC company is paid of all of his crypto stands in 2023 after 8 years of Hodling. . crypto support from PayPal