Billionaire Jeff Bezos, former CEO of shopping giant Amazon, on Twitter Dogecoin (DOGE) He started following founder Billy Markus.
Markus, in his tweet after the development, humorously said that he likes to shop from Amazon.
Billy Markus is on Twitter with 1.4 million followers. cryptocurrency He is known as one of the most popular representatives of both the world and the DOGE community.
Speculation Has Been Made For Years That Amazon Will Receive Cryptocurrency Payments
While Amazon is not currently accepting cryptocurrency payments, rumors have been circulating for the past few years that the company will start accepting cryptocurrency payments.
The current CEO of the company, Andy Jassy, told CNBC in April that the company could start selling NFTs and stated that he believes cryptocurrencies will make great sense for the future.
Billionaires Starting to Warm Up to Dogecoin?
After Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson made a space trip, Bezos went to space with the space company Blue Origin in July last year.
Despite the fact that Bezos has become a rival of Elon Musk in this area, Musk has not yet made such a trip.
As it is known, Musk is known for being a big Dogecoin fan and it is thought that DOGE can be used on the social media giant with the recently announced but not yet completed Twitter sale.
Some DOGE fans said on Twitter that Bezos’ following Billy Markus “means a lot for DOGE,” and claimed that the Amazon founder is starting to warm up to DOGE.
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