Change.Org Petition Urges Amazon to Accept Bitcoin

For bitcoin to gain mainstream acceptance as a
currency, it is vital that cryptocurrency advocates
convince retailers to begin accepting bitcoin payments.
It is also necessary that people begin making bitcoin
payments at those businesses, lest they drop bitcoin as
a payment.
Thankfully, many retailers have demonstrated openness
to accepting cryptocurrency payments. TigerDirect,
Newegg, Overstock, and Dish Network are just a few of
the household names who accept bitcoin.
Bitcoin acceptance has also progressed rapidly outside
the United States. Japanese bitcoin marketplace
bitFlyer estimates as many as 300,000 Japanese
businesses could adopt bitcoin payments by the end of

1. This summer, Russian e-commerce giant Ulmart
   plans to accept bitcoin as well.
   Now, a new Change.org petition seeks to land the
   “white whale” of cryptocurrency payments, Amazon.
   The petition, which is addressed to Amazon founder
   and CEO Jeff Bezos, urges the digital conglomerate to
   accept bitcoin and litecoin payments.
   The petition says that by accepting cryptocurrency
   Amazon would increase their customers’ quality of life:

“
Acceptance and intelligent integration of these
efficient and groundbreaking payment methods will
lead to more streamlined commerce and an
improvement in the purchasing experience for the
many millions who shop Amazon. This logical
expansion in the payment options for Amazon’s
customers would help to proactively modernize the
purchasing process and ultimately improve quality of
life by bringing together the most efficient
distribution systems with the most efficient and
convenient payment systems available."

Although customers can use third-party services such
as Purse.io to use bitcoin to buy products on Amazon,
the company does not accept bitcoin payments
directly; thus consumers must do extra work in order to
pay for their Amazon orders with bitcoin.
This is not the first time the cryptocurrency community
has tried to use a petition to convince a retailer to
accept bitcoin payments. Last year, a Change.org
petition asking Walmart to accept bitcoin only garnered
280 signatures. Walmart has begun experimenting with
blockchain technology to track delivery drone
shipments, but the mega-retailer has yet to adopt
bitcoin payment integration.
If Amazon did decide to accept bitcoin, it would go a
long way toward making bitcoin a mainstream payment
option. It would assuredly gain international press
coverage, and Amazon purchases are ubiquitous
enough that it is very likely people in the
cryptocurrency community would begin making
purchases with bitcoin. Finally, bitcoin evangelists
might have an easier time convincing skeptical friends
to try bitcoin if they could tell them that Amazon
accepts bitcoin payments.
That said, the quest to convince Amazon to accept
bitcoin is a long shot–at least right now. The petition
had 1400 signatures at the time of writing. With online
petitions regularly garnering hundreds of thousands of
signatures, supporters have a lot of work to do if they
hope to capture the attention of Jeff Bezos and
Amazon.

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