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Venmo is adding support for cryptocurrency immediately. The company says it will begin to roll out the ability for Venmo’s more than 70m users to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrencies directly in the app, similar to the support Venmo parent company PayPal added late last year. Initially, Venmo will support four types of cryptocurrency: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash — the same that PayPal offers its US users.
“While there is some overlap between the bases, there are also a lot of customers who are discretely either PayPal or Venmo users,” explains Darrell Esch, Venmo general manager and SVP. “So this ultimately gives us a new group of customers who aren’t using PayPal day in and day out the ability to access [crypto] through Venmo.”
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