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Google Says It Has "No Current Plans Regarding Bitcoin"

Posted by samzenpus on from the forget-the-coins dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A popular Reddit submission today suggested Google's payment team was looking to incorporate Bitcoin, naturally sparking a lot of excitement in the virtual currency community. TNW reached out to Google regarding the claim and learned that it was indeed false. 'As we continue to work on Google Wallet, we're grateful for a very wide range of suggestions,' a Google spokesperson told TNW. 'While we're keen to actively engage with Wallet users to help inform and shape the product, there's no change to our position: we have no current plans regarding Bitcoin.'"

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  1. Re:Why do nerds like the Boorgle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    And so another bout of Scroogling begins.

    Don't you Microsofties have anything better to do with your time? Like developing an OS somebody will want to use?

  2. Re:Still. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, it's that people that sell drugs use bitcoin exclusively, thus drug dealers have a lot of purchasing power. It doesn't mean our money is broken at all, just that rich criminals happen to have a lot of bitcoins.

    I'm glad Google is passing over bitcoin. Why provide services that are paid with money gained from the suffering of others?

  3. Re:That's all they can say! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It takes just a handful of clowns to work out those technical aspects. But it takes even fewer people with a sense of ethics to put the foot down, and avoid the international crime syndicate-enabling ponzi scheme that is bitcoin from spreading it's cancer.