The Blue Origin aerospace company, belonging to the billionaire and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, announced that she would begin to take bitcoins, ether, Solana, as well as USDT stablecoins and USDC as payment for flights to orbit.
Payment will become possible thanks to the involvement of the Shift4 Payments payment service. Blue Origin customers will be able to pay for commercial flights on the New Year’s Shipard reusable ship through popular cryptocurrencies, including Metamask, with converting to US dollars. Representatives of Blue Origin said that the intake of cryptocurrencies begins against the background of growing demand for “simple and safe” digital payment funds.
“Our mission has always been in a revolutionary transformation of trade by simplifying the transaction process, and now we are pleased to spread this concept outside the Earth. Together with Blue Origin, we make space accessible to researchers around the world, ”said the general director of Shift4 Taylor Lauber.
The head of the crypto department of SHIFT4 Alex Wilson believes that cryptocurrencies, including stablecoins, will become an increasingly popular payment of payment. Digital currencies are a class of assets with a capitalization of $ 4 trillion, the potential of which in a modern payment ecosystem has no limit, the top manager said.
Earlier, the British Auction House Christie’s announced the opening of an office in the United States, which will deal with real estate transactions exclusively for cryptocurrency.
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Source: Cryptocurrency
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