There is now a cinema where you can pay with cryptocurrency

The US multiplex cinema chain AMC recently announced that, as promised earlier, it is now possible to pay for cinema tickets with cryptocurrency. 

Large companies have recently announced that they will accept bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. The Hungarian oil and gas company Mol introduced a new cryptocurrency payment system in February. cryptocurrency, as a possible payment method in the company's Croatian Tifon wells, in order to meet new payment needs.

Although cryptocurrencies continue to face critics, the digital currency is gaining wider acceptance. The world's largest cinema network, AMC Entertainment, first talked in March about starting to introduce cryptocurrencies, and recently the system has been made live. "Huge announcement! As promised, we have introduced new payment methods at AMC. We now proudly accept: drum roll... Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin," wrote Adam Aron, the head of the company.

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

Aron added that Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal customers were also taken into consideration and therefore these providers were also included in the payment system. As for digital currencies, in addition to the cryptocurrencies mentioned above, Dogecoin will soon be accepted as a possible payment method.

For those of you who don't know, Dogecoin started out as a joke, but later became a billion-dollar business. The dog-themed meme coin was brought to life by programmers Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus in 2013. It's based on a meme of a Shiba inu a dog uploaded to the internet by its owner in Japan.