{"id":287718,"date":"2021-04-23T13:33:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/?p=287718"},"modified":"2021-07-17T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T00:24:23","slug":"doge4amazon-petition-gathers-steam-as-thousands-call-on-amazon-to-accept-dogecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/news\/doge4amazon-petition-gathers-steam-as-thousands-call-on-amazon-to-accept-dogecoin","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Doge4Amazon\u2019 Petition Gathers Steam As Thousands Call on Amazon To Accept Dogecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"

No less than 130,000 people have signed a petition for Amazon to accept Dogecoin as a payment option. This comes at the back of Dogecoin\u2019s price surge in recent weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dogecoin Petition for Amazon<\/b><\/h2>\n

The petition called <\/span>Doge4Amazon<\/span><\/a> now has a total of 130,000 signatures of people from the Dogecoin community. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was first launched by an anonymous user named Mark E back in September 2018 on Change.org, where it targeted only 25,000 signatures.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it surpassed the 100,000-signature mark last month, which may be attributed to the price rally of the cryptocurrency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A link to the petition was reportedly posted on Sunday to the active Dogecoin community on Reddit, where it gained 1,100 upvotes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark E disclosed in a recent update that Amazon was contacted by staff at Change.org on behalf of the petition after the petition surpassed 100,000 signatures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Founded by <\/span>former IBM software engineer Billy Markus and product manager Jackson Palmer as a joke in 2013, <\/span>the price of the Shiba Inu dog meme-based coin has soared, before it crashed recently. <\/span><\/p>\n

Its valuation is around $29 billion now, falling off a high of $50 billion, according to <\/span>CoinMarketCap<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though small business owners and entrepreneurs are already adopting the cryptocurrency, the petition aims to push Amazon into becoming one of the first major corporations to use it as a payment method.<\/span><\/p>\n