Tim Cook says Apple Pay won’t have cryptocurrency features anytime soon


Cook said while the company had no immediate plans to enable crypto functionality in Apple Pay, ‘There are other things that we are definitely looking at.’ — Photo by CardMapr on Unsplash

Apple Inc chief executive officer Tim Cook said the company is looking at cryptocurrency features, but did not elaborate on what that might entail.

Cook made the comments Tuesday at The New York Times DealBook conference. Cook said while the company had no immediate plans to enable crypto functionality in Apple Pay, “There are other things that we are definitely looking at.”

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