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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. Bitcoin? by Zaldarr · · Score: 4, Funny

    We all know dogecoin is the future.

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  2. It's called Gcoin now. by RevWaldo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Try to keep up.

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  3. I would be so disappointed... by westlake · · Score: 2, Funny

    .... if a day passed without another Bitcoin story.

  4. Here is how to get Google to support Bitcoin by SuperKendall · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Buy 100 USB sticks.

    2) Put a wallet on each with .01 Bitcoin, and the password in a text file.

    3) Leave laying about Google campus.

    Now all sorts of Google engineers have a vested interest in Bitcoin rising in value...

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