San Francisco (AFP) – PayPal on Monday launched a stablecoin digital currency backed by US dollars to be used for transactions at its global online payments platform. PayPal USD is issued by Paxos Trust Company and backed by dollar deposits and similar cash holdings, the online payments giant said in a release. It comes as the cryptocurrency industry is suffering hard times after the spectacular collapse of FTX and various legal cases against the sector’s biggest players. As the biggest cryptocurrencies are famously volatile, entrepreneurs invented a theoretically more reliable alternative kno…

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