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AMC to Support Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash Following BTC Adoption

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Updated by Kyle Baird
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In Brief

  • AMC Theatres to accept ETH, LTC, and BCH as payment options.
  • This will come into effect by the end of 2021.
  • The theater chain has already announced that it will accept BTC.
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AMC Theatres will accept payments in Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash by the end of 2021, in addition to bitcoin.

AMC Theatres, the world’s largest theater chain, has announced that it will accept more cryptocurrencies for payment by the end of 2021. The cryptocurrencies that it will support include bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin, and bitcoin cash. This marks yet another notable adoption for the cryptocurrency market, which has had a stellar 2021.

AMC expands crypto payment options

The company’s CEO, Adam Aron, tweeted the news on Sept 16, saying that crypto could be used to pay for online ticket and concession payments by the year’s end. AMC revealed that it would accept bitcoin in August 2021, to much fanfare.

This year has already seen Tesla accept bitcoin as payments for its electric vehicles, though it suspended that later. PayPal has also expanded into cryptocurrencies and is ramping up its support for the market.

The news of AMC Theatres accepting cryptocurrency payments will please investors, as the chain is a notable brand with some clout. The firm has also come to the attention of the public lately for its support from within Reddit’s wallstreetbets community. While the support was not quite as strong as it was for GameStop, those retail investors have helped drive the price of AMC’s stock up.

In short, the acceptance of crypto payments should stir further interest from a community that is already knowledgeable about crypto. Incidentally, GameStop also announced a foray into the blockchain and crypto space when it announced that it was working on a series of NFTs.

Bitcoin and crypto steadily seeing greater adoption

The crypto world has been subject to a lot of good news in terms of adoption this year. The support coming for crypto payments has been varied, with entities in a highly varied set of industries taking the step. The signs have been very optimistic at the retail level.

The travel industry can benefit a great deal from bitcoin payments — and a luxury hotel in Switzerland has gone to facilitate that. Switzerland, which is known for its hub of crypto companies and entrepreneurs, has over 85,000 merchants supporting crypto payments.

Other established companies supporting crypto payments include auction house Lloyd’s. Auction houses have been very interested in blockchain technology, particularly NFTs. Many of them have conducted auctions for NFTs, selling them for many millions.

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Rahul Nambiampurath's cryptocurrency journey first began in 2014 when he stumbled upon Satoshi's Bitcoin whitepaper. With a bachelor's degree in Commerce and an MBA in Finance from Sikkim Manipal University, he was among the few that first recognized the sheer untapped potential of decentralized technologies. Since then, he has helped DeFi platforms like Balancer and Sidus Heroes — a web3 metaverse — as well as CEXs like Bitso (Mexico's biggest) and Overbit to reach new heights with his...
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