Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support

Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support
Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets.The team – described in LinkedIn posts and job listings – will be run by Guillaume Poncin, Stripe’s former head of engineering for banking and financial products. He is looking to hire at least four staffers to help plot Stripe’s crypto strategy.Those engineers “will design and build the core components that we need to support crypto use cases,” the job posts said. “Crypto is a brand new team at Stripe.”Stripe’s relatively modest hiring push (it has 4,000 employees) comes amid a surge in crypto…