After Tesla, another tech giant may consider accepting payments in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
On Thursday, Amazon's official website posted a job opening, indicating that Amazon's payment acceptance and experience team is looking for a "digital currency and blockchain product leader" who needs the experienced leader. use blockchain, distributed ledger, central bank digital currency and cryptocurrency expertise to "develop Amazon's digital currency and blockchain strategy and product blueprint".
According to the job description, the above-mentioned Amazon team is responsible for customer payments on Amazon, as well as payments for Amazon services around the world.
Since then, an Amazon spokesman confirmed the job to the media and said:
"inspired by the innovations that have taken place in cryptocurrency, we are studying how [innovation] might unfold at Amazon. We believe that the future will be based on some new technologies that can make modern, fast and inexpensive payments, and we hope to bring this future to Amazon customers as soon as possible. "
Since then, blockchain industry media Cointelegraph said that the new hiring confirms Amazon's growing focus on digital currency, and that the company is clearly developing new services that allow customers to shop in digital currency. In February, Amazon hired a job to develop a new payment product that allows customers to convert cash into digital currency through online services such as shopping, which was originally planned for launch in Mexico, the media said.
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