AMC’s Smartphone App Now Accepts Crypto Payments Like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu

AMC's app for smartphones starts accepting cryptocurrency payments, including Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, to name a few, for customers purchasing their movie tickets from their mobile devices.

AMC’s Smartphone App Now Accepts Crypto Payments Like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu
ROSEMONT, ILLINOIS - DECEMBER 04: An AMC Theatres logo hangs above one of the company's movie theaters shuttered by the coronavirus COVID-19 on December 04, 2020 in Rosemont, Illinois. In what could be another blow to the theater industry, Warner Bros. Pictures on Thursday announced that all of its 2021 films will stream on HBO Max during the same time the films will be playing in theaters. Scott Olson/Getty Images

AMC and Crypto

It is worth noting that the theater chain, AMC, has been accepting various crypto payments for ticket purchases for several months already. The firm started allowing customers to pay using virtual assets like Bitcoin way back on Nov. 13, 2021, as per a news story by CoinTelegraph.

Despite that, the mobile app of the movie theater chain has been left behind without any option to pay using crypto, such as the meme token Dogecoin until today.

AMC App Now Accepts Crypto

The CEO of AMC, Adam Aron, himself announced that the mobile app of its United States theaters, has a new update, wherein crypto payments are now welcomed.

The AMC boss kept his previous promise that crypto payments will also be supported in its smartphone app.

Aron confirmed in his official Twitter account that the AMC mobile app "now accepts online payments using DogeCoin, Shiba Inu, and other cryptocurrencies." The exec added that it was made possible through the integration of Bitpay.

According to a recent report by The Verge, the crypto options are not limited to Dogecoin and Shiba Inu. In fact, payment service provider Bitpay also supports other cryptos, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin, among others.

AMC Explores Shiba Inu Payments In Addition to Other Crypto Options
Shiba Inu cryptocurrency logo displayed on a screen and representation of cryptocurrencies are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on June 29, 2021 Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

It is worth noting that AMC claims that the crypto payments on its web client roughly account for 14 percent of all its movie ticket transactions, as per the latest report by Engadget.

Now, even mobile users opting to install its app on their smartphones could start using the crypto tokens that they have been holding on to for some time now.

AMC App: Apple Pay, Google Pay, Paypal

On top of that, the AMC app also caters to users who still prefer to pay for movie tickets using their credit cards.

But if you do not want to go the old-fashioned way, there are various digital payment services and crypto token options to choose from.

Apart from the new crypto option, the AMC CEO also announced in his recent tweet that the AMC mobile app is also accepting other digital payments, including Paypal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.

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