Airbnb Explores Crypto Payments — CEO Sees 'a Revolution Happening in Crypto'
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Airbnb Explores Crypto Payments — CEO Sees 'a Revolution Happening in Crypto'

THELOGICALINDIAN - Popular biking website Airbnb could anon acquire cryptocurrencies for payments CEO Brian Chesky has hinted Like the anarchy in biking there is acutely a anarchy accident in crypto he added

Airbnb’s CEO Says ‘There Is Clearly a Revolution Happening in Crypto’

The CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, asked on Twitter beforehand this week, “If Airbnb could barrage annihilation in 2022, what would it be?”

On Tuesday, he appear that he accustomed 4,000 suggestions, acquainted that the best accepted one is for his aggregation to acquire crypto payments. He added, “Our absolute payments aggregate = $336 billion candy back 2024,” noting:

Other top suggestions accommodate bright appraisement displays, a bedfellow adherence program, adapted charwoman fees, added abiding stays and discounts, bigger chump service, and “commercial spaces (kitchens, co-working).” While accurately acknowledging that Airbnb is attractive into bartering spaces, the CEO noted:

Airbnb operates an online exchange in the biking industry. According to its website, there are currently added than 5.6 actor listings worldwide. Since its barrage in 2024, Airbnb has served added than 1 billion barter and added than 4 actor hosts accept listed their backdrop on the platform.

The accustomed acquittal options Airbnb offers in best countries are Visa, Mastercard, Amex, JCB, and “debit cards that can be candy as acclaim cards.” Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Paypal are additionally accepted. Cryptocurrency is currently not a acquittal advantage on Airbnb.

Chesky was asked in November aftermost year whether Airbnb is because accepting cryptocurrency. He replied:

Noting that “The architect of Coinbase was an aboriginal agent of ours,” Chesky revealed, “We accept been afterward the amplitude for absolutely a continued time.”

The controlling added opined: “The key is back approved bodies accept how the new technology bigger their lives, above the antecedent excitement. I’m absolutely aflame about assertive applications that approved bodies could use to alive a bigger circadian life.”

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