Bitcoin rose to $38 000 amid rumors of Amazon's support for BTC payments – Bits Media

As reported by City A.M. citing an insider, Amazon will add support for bitcoin payments by the end of this year. The BTC rate reacted with a sharp rise to $38 000.

At its peak, bitcoin rose to $39 700 - very little remained to a significant level $40 000. However, then the course первой криптовалюты немного снизился и сейчас BTC торгуется по $38 700. During the day, the growth was 12%, while the main spurt occurred within the first three hours after
publications City A.M.

Last week, Amazon opened a job for a cryptocurrency and blockchain specialist as part of the Amazon Payment Acceptance team & Customer. This indicates, that the world's largest online retailer plans to rethink its payments strategy. But, according to an insider, the company's intentions are much larger.

“This is not just a discussion of proposals for accepting cryptocurrencies in the distant future.. This is a complete, a full-blown and well-discussed piece of Amazon's future engine. Everything will start with bitcoin - this is the first stage of the project, and the instruction came from Jeff Bezos himself ", - quotes the words of an insider City A.M.

Supporting Bitcoin is not limited to. According to an insider, также будет добавлена поддержка ETH, ADA and BCH, and next year the online retailer plans to launch its own payment token.

“The whole project is almost ready to launch. It will be a multilevel structure, where cryptocurrencies can be used to pay for goods and services, and receive tokens as a reward ", - emphasized the insider.

Note, that so far there is no confirmation of this information. Back in February of this year, Amazon was opening several vacancies for developers in the blockchain space.. Expected, that they will develop the retailer's own digital currency.