[2021-07-26]Insider: Amazon plans to accept bitcoin payments in 2021

[Daltonik]

It all started with the fact that on Friday Amazon published a new list of vacancies for an expert on cryptocurrencies and blockchain https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1644513/digital-currency-and-blockchain-product-lead Shortly after, an anonymous source told the British business newspaper City A.M. that Amazon is going to start accepting bitcoin payments this year, and next year it will release its token https://www.cityam.com/amazon-definitely-lining-up-bitcoin-payments-and-token-confirms-insider/ According to the source, it will not take much time since Amazon is working on this issue and that they will not be limited to bitcoin, but Ethereum, Cardano and Bitcoin Cash will be next.

source: https://u.today/amazon-readying-to-accept-bitcoin-ethereum-cardano-and-bitcoin-cash-according-to-insider

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[SFR10]

“It won’t take long because the plans are already there, and they have been working on them since 2019."

To developers/back-end coders out there: Does it really take "that long" to code everything from scratch and include it as an additional payment option?

“When all these crypto ducks are lined up, there’s another twist to push things even further into Amazon’s favour – a native token,”
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“There’s little more to it, for now, but you can guarantee the Bitcoin plan will be monitored closely as opportunities with Amazon’s own version of a crypto will be explored.”

Everything was great until it mentioned creating their own token ^[SMH]!

• What I think it'll happen ^{[I could be wrong]}:
  
  • Phase 1: Add BTCitcoin.
  • Phase 2: Add other cryptocurrencies ^{[trial and error]}.
  • Phase 3: Announce and add their own token.
  • Phase 4: Remove BTCitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

[bbc.reporter]

I am very skeptical on this news after witnessing a someone’s joke on Twitter being implied by bitcoin news media as a rumor that might be real. Also, another cause for skepticism is cityam.com is a small news media outlet. Why would insiders from Amazon talk to them?

[Slow death]

The very sad part of it all is that people didn't even take a few minutes to see if the news was true or not, they rushed to buy bitcoin and then the price had a scary big rise, few minutes the price had gone up a lot. In the end came confirmation of the obvious that Amazon said this is false news. but is it because the price had no eviction? because people are interpreting amazon's statements as a hope that soon the rumor will become real

Amazon has already denied that rumors but  they don't say they will not accept crypto by no means in the future.

this made people create high hopes that in the future they will accept, that's why the price didn't go down after they denied this news

[dansus021]

well if is true it will be big movement to bitcoin after tesla, and worldwide shopper would be happy since not all people have credit card or debit card.

but maybe amazon want to creating his own digital currency like facebook does

[Vishnu.Reang]

• What I think it'll happen ^{[I could be wrong]}:
  
  • Phase 1: Add BTCitcoin.
  • Phase 2: Add other cryptocurrencies ^{[trial and error]}.
  • Phase 3: Announce and add their own token.
  • Phase 4: Remove BTCitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

I agree with the first three phases, but not with the last one. They will follow the example of Binance. After coming up with BNB and BUSD, did they removed ETH, BTC or USDT? They will allow the competitor coins as well, but those using their own token/coin will have an advantage in terms of low fees and cashback benefits. And even if they come up with Amazoncoin (or some other coin), it will be wrong to classify BTC as it's competitor. Because right now all the altcoins (including BNB and ETH) are dependent on Bitcoin and they haven't yet reached a stage where they could challenge Bitcoin.

[davis196]

I have nothing against Amazon accepting cryptocurrency payments,but this sounds more like fake news.
What's the point for Amazon to accept crypto in 2021?Why didn't they accept crypto in 2019 or 2020?
If this is really true,I think that Jeff Bezos is going to repeat what Elon Musk did.This is going to be more like
another pump&dump of Bitcoin and the crypto markets,rather than a sustainable project.
At some point the Amazon CEO will complain about how bad BTC mining is,the BTC price volatility and the high transaction fees.We've seen this before...
Anyway,I don't believe that this adoption will ever going to happen.

[Lucius]

I have nothing against Amazon accepting cryptocurrency payments,but this sounds more like fake news.

Of course it's fake news, haven't you read any of the posts in this thread?

If this is really true,I think that Jeff Bezos is going to repeat what Elon Musk did.

Aren't you aware that Jeff is no longer Amazon CEO? I think there are some more important things in life for him now - a man recently went into space with his rocket, so somehow it seems to me that Bitcoin is not even on his mind - would it matter to you if you had about $200 billion?