Yesterday Amazon posted a job ad for a digital currency and blockchain lead. The role is for a position within the Amazon Payment Acceptance team. In contrast, most previous Amazon roles have been with cloud provider Amazon Web Services, which offers several blockchain hosting solutions.
“You will leverage your domain expertise in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger, Central Bank Digital Currencies and Cryptocurrency to develop the case for the capabilities which should be developed, drive overall vision and product strategy, and gain leadership buy-in and investment for new capabilities,” reads the advert.
Other big techs are already getting in on the act. Facebook unveiled Libra (now Diem) in 2019. And yesterday, Twitter announced that it plans to power new Twitter business models using Bitcoin.
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