Coinbase Adds PayPal Withdrawals To Its Platform (For U.S. Citizens)

From now on, all of the Coinbase customers in the United States can make withdrawals into their PayPal accounts. According to a new blog post which is featured in today’s crypto news section, the exchange made it easier for US customers to withdraw their Bitcoin and altcoin earnings from their Coinbase balances to PayPal – immediately and with no fees.

The new arrangement also allows customers to convert their cryptocurrency holdings to cash, according to Allen Osgood who is a chief of product development at the exchange. In the news, Coinbase also announced that it was bringing back a PayPal integration last month, noting that its customers will only be able to make withdrawals using PayPal and won’t be able to buy cryptocurrencies via the platform.

Previously, the exchange had a PayPal integration which was ceased due to technical issues earlier this year. At the time, a spokesperson that “there is a new functionality that was improved from the prior one” adding:

“There is new technical work to make this possible, and that was done in conjunction with PayPal.”

However, this Friday Osgood wrote that the partnership provides Coinbase customers an alternative to the traditional federal wire or automated clearing house (ACH) network that they were required to use. As he said:

“These traditional finance networks can add up to two business days to a withdrawal. We’re always looking for ways to not only meet the bar set by traditional finance, but raise it. That’s why we rebuilt our integration to ensure that the speed and reliability of PayPal withdrawals does just that.”

The service is for now only available to customers in the United States, but could continue to be added to other nations across 2019, as Osgood wrote.