Amazon Is Getting Serious About Accepting Bitcoin For Payment
Amazon has begun its search to hire a Digital Currency and Blockchain Product Lead, to enable modern and inexpensive payments to Amazon.Amazon has begun its search to hire a Digital Currency and Blockchain Product Lead for its Payment Acceptance & Experience Team, who are responsible for facilitating billions of online customer payments through the sites and services of one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world.In response to the June 22 job posting a spokesperson for Amazon said, “We believe the future will be built on new technologies that enable modern, fast, and inexpensive....
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The original email from Amazon is a fake. I recently stumbled on this thread on Bitcointalk, about a user who claims they received an email from Amazon saying that the online retailer is currently in talks of creating their own Bitcoin payment processor. As stated on the thread, the Amazon Customer Service Representative had this to say about the prospect of Bitcoin payments on Amazon: We don't accept bitcoins as a payment method on our website at this time. However, I am pleased to inform you that we are in the process of creating our own Bitcoin payment processor and will be able to....
Amazon is not interested in embracing bitcoin, but it is looking into new digital payment services, possibly a service developed in-house, a new report suggests. The company's payments head Tom Taylor told Re/code that Amazon did indeed consider bitcoin, but eventually decided that there was not enough interest in the technology for Amazon to benefit from adopting it. Said Taylor: "Obviously, it gets a lot of press and we have considered it, but we're not hearing from customers that it's right for them, and don't have any plans within Amazon to engage bitcoin." Amazon's revenue in 2013 was....
One of the major points that Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne made when his company began accepting bitcoin payments was that rival retailers would be forced to accept the digital currency in order to remain competitive. Amazon, you could say, is an Overstock rival, but they don't have any interest in getting involved with bitcoin, according to a Re/code report. "Obviously it gets a lot of press and we have considered [accepting bitcoins]," said Tom Taylor, who leads the Amazon payments team, "but we're not hearing from customers that it's right for them and don't have any plans within Amazon....
We all know that Amazon doesn't have plans of accepting bitcoin for purchases anytime soon. It hasn't stopped many of us from finding ways to use bitcoin to pay for goods on Amazon. There are instances where people buy Amazon gift cards in exchange for bitcoin through third parties. These services aren't always reliable or trustworthy. Now, Coinjay is going to change all that. Coinjay is a browser extension for the widely used Google Chrome browser. This free extension, available on Google Chrome Store gives you an option to pay for your Amazon purchases with bitcoin. Once you have the....
Is it fair to say that Amazon and bitcoin have had a rocky relationship? While major selling-havens like Overstock.com have been quick to embrace the digital currency’s stamina, the same cannot be said about Amazon. Bitcoin payments have never been advocated or accepted through the online mega-platform, but it looks as though things are changing. Amazon has begun accepting bitcoins “indirectly.” No, customers cannot actually use bitcoin to pay for goods and services yet, but transferring bitcoin to USD is certainly accepted. Amazon Direct now allows consumers to transfer any dollar amount....