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Bing Unveils Bitcoin Currency Conversion With Help of Coinbase

Jason Del Rey has been a business journalist for 15 years and has covered Amazon, Walmart, and the e-commerce industry for the last decade. He was a senior correspondent at Vox.

Bing announced today that its search engine now lets users see what some currencies, such as the U.S. dollar and British pound, are worth in bitcoin, and vice versa. For example, entering “100 usd in bitcoin” into the Bing search box returns a result of “0.15 Bitcoins.” Bing is working with bitcoin startup Coinbase to get data on the price of bitcoin.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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