AMC is now letting you buy movie tickets with Dogecoin

The chain said it was looking into expanding its crypto payments last year. | Image: The Verge

AMC Theaters' app will now let you buy tickets and concessions using Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, the company's CEO Adam Aron announced via Twitter on Friday. The company added support for the cryptocurrencies through a Bitpay integration, after saying in November that it was exploring" how to accept the coins.

Paying for popcorn and tickets using Doge is relatively simple - you go through the normal process for selecting your seat and adding any concessions you want, then select Bitpay as your payment method. From there, you can connect your crypto wallet (it supports a ton of them, including Coinbase) or get an address where you can send your chosen cryptocurrency to complete the purchase. (As I was writing this, a matinee screening of S...

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