CEO of leading movie theater company AMC Theatres, Adam Aron said that users now can pay online for tickets and snacks in Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash.
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Big newsflash! As promised, many new ways NOW to pay online at AMC. We proudly now accept: drumroll, please… Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin. Also Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal. Incredibly, they already account for 14% of our total online transactions! Dogecoin next. pic.twitter.com/a7pqYBm7HB
— Adam Aron (@CEOAdam) November 12, 2021
According to a tweet from Aron, plans include adding Dogecoin to this list next. In early October, the movie chain started allowing DOGE payments for gift cards via a BitPay Wallet.
The first time the company disclosed plans for accepting crypto payments was in August.Previously, Adam Aron created polls on Twitter asking opinions on crypto. Via a poll created in September, Aron asked if AMC must accept Doge payments. The majority of participants (68.1%) were in favor of adding DOGE. According to the AMC CEO, his Dogecoin post saw a huge engagement level. Elon Musk was among the people who liked Aron's tweet, for which Aron thanked him.
In the latest poll, Aron asked whether users want the company to accept payments in SHIBA. Many answered that they do.