{"id":9230,"date":"2021-07-27T10:45:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:55:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:55:14","slug":"bitcoin-rises-after-amazon-job-posting-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/bitcoin-rises-after-amazon-job-posting-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Rises After Amazon Job Posting Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recent job opening posted by Amazon suggesting that the company may be accepting cryptocurrencies as a means of payment sent bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies surging with bitcoin up 12% in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s job advertisement states that the company is looking for a &#8220;Digital Currency and Blockchain Product Lead who will be a member of the Payment Acceptance and Experience Team responsible for how Amazon&#8217;s customers pay on Amazon&#8217;s sites and through Amazon&#8217;s services around the globe.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon has denied reports about the company accepting bitcoin even with the job posting. The company issued a statement saying the reports are not true but indicated that they could delve into the world of cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Amazon does accept cryptocurrency, it remains unclear whether the company will use an existing cryptocurrency or develop a new one.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/07\/bitcoin-surges-as-amazon-job-posting-suggests-retailer-may-accept-cryptocurrencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A job opening posted by Amazon suggesting that the company may be accepting cryptocurrencies as payment sent bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies surging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[212,124],"class_list":["post-9230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news","tag-amazon","tag-bitcoin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}