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  • Uber Eats Now Accepts Shiba Inu and Dogecoin

    Uber Eats Now Accepts Shiba Inu and Dogecoin

    Fans of the most popular dog-themed cryptocurrencies have a new place to spend their crypto, with Uber Eats now accepting Shiba Inu and Dogecoin.

    Uber Eats doesn’t directly accept any crypto, but it does via its integration with the BitPay service. BitPay made the announcement via a blog post.

    BitPay offers a variety of options for purchasing prepaid gift cards with crypto. Gift cards can be bought with cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Shiba Inu (SHIB), Litecoin (LTC), XRP (XRP), Dai (DAI), Wrapped bitcoin (WBTC), Gemini USD (GUSD), USD Coin (USDC), and Binance USD (BUSD).

    Despite starting as a meme, Dogecoin has become a major player in the crypto market. Shiba Inu, the “Dogecoin killer,” has similarly captured the hearts and wallets of users.

    BitPay’s expanded support for both coins will make it much easier to use them for everyday purchases.

  • AMC Theatres Will Accept Dogecoin

    AMC Theatres Will Accept Dogecoin

    AMC Theatres has announced it will start accepting Dogecoin, alongside Bitcoin, by the end of the year.

    AMC announced in August that it would begin accepting Bitcoin by the end of the year. A month later, the company announced it would expand its support to other cryptocurrencies.

    According to TheStreet, AMC will accept Dogecoin via BitPay. Customers will be able to purchase up to $200 worth of gift cards per day, gift cards that can be used online or in-person.

  • Mark Cuban Says Mavericks Will Accept Dogecoin ‘Because We Can’

    Mark Cuban Says Mavericks Will Accept Dogecoin ‘Because We Can’

    What began as a joke is increasingly becoming a serious cryptocurrency, as the Dallas Mavericks are the first to accept Dogecoin as payment via BitPay.

    Dogecoin was created by IBM software engineer Billy Markus and Adobe software engineer Jackson Palmer and originally released in December 2013. Despite being created as a joke, the cryptocurrency has a market capitalization of $6.3 billion at the time of writing.

    BitPay has announced support for Dogecoin payments. Right from the outset, the Dallas Mavericks are onboard, accepting Dogecoin via BitCoin.

    “The Dallas Mavericks are a long-time enthusiast of cryptocurrency, opening up new opportunities for the team to sell tickets and merchandise to its global MFFL fan base,” Stephen Pair, CEO of BitPay, said. “BitPay believes that with continued cryptocurrency adoption, the industry is reaching an inflection point that will forever change consumer confidence, trust and pave the way for blockchain payments to disrupt the way consumers and businesses receive and spend funds.”

    Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had a novel reply as to why the Mavericks were supporting the cryptocurrency.

    “The Mavericks have decided to accept Dogecoin as payment for Mavs tickets and merchandise for one very important, earth shattering reason, because we can! Because we can, we have chosen to do so. We have chosen to do so because sometimes in business you have to do things that are fun, engaging and hopefully generate a lot of PR. So we will take Dogecoin, today, tomorrow and possibly forever more. For those of you who would like to learn more about Dogecoin we strongly encourage you to talk to your teenagers who are on tik tok and ask them about it. They will be able to explain it all to you,” said Cuban.

  • Bitcoin Bowl Is Here to Confuse the Hell out of Your Dad

    Bitcoin Bowl Is Here to Confuse the Hell out of Your Dad

    On December 26th, 2014, men, women, and children – food drunk from the previous night’s Christmas feast – will gather in the living room to enjoy the world’s first Bitcoin Bowl.

    Hello pops, you say as your elderly father picks up the telephone. How’s it goin? You watching the Bitcoin Bowl tonight?

    The what?

    The Bitcoin Bowl – I hear it’s gonna be a real doozy.

    *Click*

    Bitcoin solutions company BitPay is behind whatever this is, which will be existing for whatever reason until the contract is up in 2017. The Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl replaces the old name for the American vs. ACC conference showdown, the Beef O’Brady’s Bowl.

    “Our goal is to continue to move bitcoin into the mainstream and sponsoring the St. Petersburg Bowl offers us that opportunity,” said Tony Gallippi, Executive Chairman for BitPay. “College football fans and the bitcoin community represent a similar target demographic – tech-savvy men between the ages of 18 and 40.”

    Tickets will go on sale later this year, and yes, you will be able to pay with bitcoin. From now until then, you can figure out how to explain what the f*ck bitcoin is to your dad.

    Image via Bitcoin Bowl, Twitter