The CEO of the world’s largest movie company AMC Entertainment said that payment service provider Bitpay has agreed to support the popular meme coin Shiba Inu (SHIB) at his request. AMC will be able to accept Shiba Inu for payments in the next few months.
AMC will start accepting meme coin with Bitpay’s SHIB support
AMC CEO Adam Aron has announced that AMC will soon be able to adopt the meme coin Shiba Inu (SHIB). AMC is the largest film exhibition company in the USA, Europe and the world. As of March 31, the company owns or operates approximately 950 movie theaters and 10,500 screens worldwide.
Aron tweeted that crypto payment service provider Bitpay decided to support the Shiba Inu specifically because they wanted it. Thus, the CEO announced that AMC will be able to accept SHIB for movie tickets and online payments in about 60 to 120 days. Aron added that AMC Theaters is ready to become the first Bitpay customer to accept the Shiba Inu.
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As we reported , the AMC CEO previously created a Twitter poll on October 29 asking his followers whether AMC would accept the Shiba Inu alongside Dogecoin (DOGE) and other cryptocurrencies. The CEO said that since this survey, his company has been trying to find a way to adopt SHIB. In this poll, 87.6 percent of the 153,100 votes in total said “Yes”. At the time of writing, the Shiba Inu is changing hands at $0.00005147, down 2.4 percent.