Paypal has a higher barrier to entry and not that interesting to tinker with. It's boring. Bitcoin is cool and new and every teenager can play with it without asking his mom or dad for a bank account. When the web was growing 15 years ago, many teenagers were "web designers" and not really looking into J2EE.
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Personally, I am downright shocked that Bitcoin is outpacing PayPal, which is a product that has more or less achieved market saturation.
Paypal has a higher barrier to entry and not that interesting to tinker with. It's boring. Bitcoin is cool and new and every teenager can play with it without asking his mom or dad for a bank account. When the web was growing 15 years ago, many teenagers were "web designers" and not really looking into J2EE.
According to their metrics, Bitcoin isn't just ahead in growth rate, it's ahead in the raw number of repositories. That is shocking to me.