A Bitcoin exchange Coinizy Financial Services, Inc. has recently launched the world’s first Bitcoin to PayPal service.
Coinizy, a Bitcoin exchange founded by Yannick Losbar, has recently announced the launch of the world’s first Bitcoin to PayPal exchange option.
The platform that enables Bitcoin to PayPal exchange option promises to be the fastest and easiest way to convert Bitcoin to fiat money. Besides, it provides the most diversified cashing out facilities among all Bitcoin exchanges.
“Up until now, 99% of the Bitcoin exchanges only offered the good old wire transfer, when one wanted to withdraw the funds he obtained by converting some bitcoins. This excludes de facto the 2.5bn unbanked people, as well as most of the teenagers, which is very unfortunate since this part of the population could represent the next potential wave of Bitcoin adopters,” explained Losbar.
“Even among the most financially included part of the population, wire transfers are often perceived as slow (3 days on average for a SEPA wire, and up to 10 days for an international SWIFT transfer) and inconvenient,” he added.
Coinizy has implemented seven different withdrawal possibilities, with each one potentially corresponding to a particular use case. Users have an option of choosing PayPal and Okpay e-wallets, frequent travelers would appreciate the cash delivery made possible by the Western Union direction, and ecommerce shoppers might consider the prepaid, debit-card offers.
With the aim of meeting the widest range of consumer needs possible, the platform offers the most extensive range of prepaid Bitcoin debit cards in the industry: two plastic cards and one virtual card instantly generated and delivered via email.
“Our intent is to offer Bitcoin holders a product range of debit cards as complete as their own bank’s one!” Losbar emphasized.
“The fact that we don’t accept any fiat currency as a depositing method led us to be exempted by the Canadian Financial Services Regulation Authority, FINTRAC, from the need to register as a Money Services Business and all the heavy additional compliance requirements that necessarily comes along,” said Losbar, explaining that the Bitcoin to fiat money business model of the platform puts it in a less intensively regulated business category than the majority of its industry peers.
Furthermore, the platform made a rather unconventional choice regarding the storage of user-deposited Bitcoins:
“We don’t hold any! Since we only provide fiat currency withdrawals, there’s no need to keep the Bitcoins deposited by our customers. Therefore, they are immediately sold during the depositing process, and we do not even have the control over them during a single second since all deposits are handled by our partner and bitcoin processor, Snapcard,” he said.
Zhanna has a background working for an American multinational food and beverage company as well as at a number of translation agencies serving similar top multinational corporations. She enjoys discovering new cultures as well as learning new languages. She is also a lover of all things fabric and floral ,especially if they are design-related. Zhanna is a graduate of Belarusian State Economic University with a major in Intercultural Business Communications.
