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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by EE84M3i on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:27PM (#27968300)
Amazon gift cards are marketplace specific. You can't buy a gift card in the UK and use it in the US.
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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by paxys on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:10AM (#27968872)
That's a restriction placed by Amazon itself. They could remove it tomorrow if they wanted to, and doing so would be a lot easier than creating their own currency.
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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by rchaud on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:17AM (#27973453)
Gift card balances are liabilities on the balance sheet of each country or regional office in which that card is valid. From a software standpoint it probably isn't much more than a flick of a switch. From a financial reconcialiation point of view however....
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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by atatatat on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:03AM (#27972581)
Not so fast.

If they allow that with USD et al, they're more liable in more "currently on the books" ways than if they started letting people send Ama-coin across the globe.

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