The Shiba Inu community seems to be taking their chances against billionaire Jeff Bezos to take SHIB under his wing, as the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, refused to do so and remained loyal to Dogecoin.
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Thousands of Signatures Gathered for Amazon to Adopt SHIB
Currently, with three petitions launched on Change.org on the subject, a total of about 173,774 signature collected:
Campaign “SHIB4Amazon – Ask Amazon to add SHIB as payment” 47,606 signed by the person.
Campaign “We politely ask Amazon to accept SHIBA INU as a form of payment” 45,037 signed by the person. This aforementioned campaign went from 40 thousand signatures to approximately 480 thousand signatures in a short time after it was heard by other members of the community.
Campaign “Please accept Shiba Inu cryptocurrency as payment for Amazon products and services” 81,131 signed by the person.
Justin Taylor, the person who started the petition that has collected the most signatures so far, on the Change.org page of the petition; He wrote that he wanted the SHIB community to seriously consider accepting SHIB for goods and services on Amazon’s platform.
The Shiba Inu supporter believes that if this move happens, it will benefit both Shiba Inu users and Amazon.
“Amazon has changed the world multiple times since its creation. We respectfully request that Amazon do this once again by adopting the Shiba Inu.”
As for the petition launched for SHIB to be listed by Robinhood, the number of signatures is so far. to 479,588 reached.
Elon Musk Turns His Back on SHIB, What About Jeff Bezos?
In a recent tweet, Tesla CEO and big Dogecoin lover Elon Musk disappointed the Shiba community by saying he doesn’t hold any Shiba Inu.
This move distanced the SHIB community from Musk, who was building space rockets to go to Mars, and apparently prompted them to seek another boss. By starting petitions for Amazon, the community; It could be thought that he is hoping that another influential billionaire will start to become interested in the meme coin.
Despite the community’s plans for Amazon, Bezos plans to step down as Amazon CEO later this year, leaving the post to Andy Jassy. Besides, even though Jeff Bezos hasn’t been caught tweeting about crypto before, the meme coin communities never lose hope.