Yes, but they could have used WePay, Stripe, or some other alternative.
   Remember Diaspora? $80K in donations frozen by PayPal. Once you get
   your account unfrozen, as Diaspora learned, your momentum stops. So
   it's doubtful that they'll make over $45K now, without another appeal.

   On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:19 AM, CypherPunk <[1]cypherpunk@cpunk.us>
   wrote:

   On 09/05/2013 07:06 AM, Dan Staples wrote:
   > Why did they use Paypal? Probably because they are aspiring to gain
   > popular attention and support, and most people don't use Bitcoin;
   they
   > use Paypal and credit cards for online transactions.
   >
   > Of course Paypal is a liability in terms of privacy and the risks of
   > them doing something just like what they did, but if MailPile hadn't
   > gone with Paypal, it's likely they wouldn't have gotten the amount of
   > funding that was donated so far. It's always a tradeoff of risk,
   > especially when you're aiming to go mainstream.

     Oh I completely understand why they used Paypal. Like you said, not
     enough people use Bitcoin to really make a successful go of a
     Bitcoin
     based fundraising campaign. I'm just saying I'd like to see Indigogo
     offer Bitcoin as an option. I'm sure a lot of people would use it
     and it
     would also be a good way to get people interested in Bitcoin.

References

   1. mailto:cypherpunk@cpunk.us