Vacancy at Amazon points to acceptance of cryptocurrency as a means of payment

Amazon may plan to accept bitcoin as a form of payment in the future. In a vacancy, the company says it is looking for experts on digital money and blockchain. Other cryptocurrencies may also be considered.

Amazon dropped this weekend a vacancy online for a product lead for digital currencies and blockchain. The vacancy states that that employee must develop Amazon’s strategy and roadmap around those topics. The vacancy even mentions a launch strategy, which makes it seem to be about more than just an experiment or research.

According to an anonymous source from the British newspaper City AM Amazon would aim to support bitcoin with the online store before the end of the year. The company would also consider supporting at least eight other cryptocurrencies. Those would include Ethereum, Cardano, and Bitcoin Cash. Jeff Bezos himself would have ordered it.

Amazon would also like to work on its own token, according to the source. According to City AM’s source, it would be ‘increasingly likely’ that the company is ‘moving towards tokenisation’. Details are not yet known, and the plans have not yet been confirmed by other sources.