The Amazon Digital and Emerging Payments division has posted vacancies for developers and engineers for a new digital-currency payments product.<\/p>\n
The payment solution will be launched in Mexico and will allow customers to convert cash into digital currency.<\/p>\n
\n“Customers will be able to use the product for online purchases of goods and services, such as Prime Video,” the announcement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The first job posting dated October 2020, but it was recently updated.<\/p>\n
Amazon ranks fourth by market capitalization among global companies. At present, the platform does not accept any cryptocurrency as a means of payment.<\/p>\n
Earlier in August 2019, the online retailer posted a LinkedIn vacancy for a software developer who, among other things, was to work on “blockchain”. The company was later forced to remove the blockchain reference from the vacancy text amid media frenzy.<\/p>\n
Amazon has long shown interest in researching cryptocurrency technologies. Previously the company patented a cryptographic system based on a Proof-of-Work algorithm, and also a solution for the streaming-data market that lets subscribers receive cryptocurrency transaction data in real time.<\/p>\n
It also launched a “managed” platform for developing scalable blockchain networks and backed a business accelerator for entrepreneurs and startups in the field of DLT technologies.<\/p>\n