{"id":4767,"date":"2022-01-14T04:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=4767"},"modified":"2022-01-14T04:01:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T04:01:11","slug":"tesla-tries-dogecoin-as-payment-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=4767","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Tries Dogecoin as Payment, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tesla will be testing a new payment option for dogecoin, according to the source code for its website, The Block Crypto reported Thursday (Jan. 13).<\/p>\n

The DOGE payment option was added for testing a few days ago. A software engineer, going by \u201cTree of Alpha,\u201d told The Block that the source code showed the company was \u201cdefinitely\u201d testing the option.<\/p>\n

Tree of Alpha wrote that the code was \u201calready present in the latest Javascript files Tesla uses for processing payments, but the part about dogecoin is forced to return null no matter what happens, thus never showing (basically a way to test code in production).\u201d<\/p>\n

That means the DOGE payment option is a kind of hidden feature that can\u2019t be seen by most. Musk has said before that the company was planning to \u201csee how it goes\u201d with accepting DOGE payments.<\/p>\n

Musk has not kept his affinity for crypto and DOGE a secret \u2014 he\u2019s also invested in the meme-themed crypto, along with other cryptos like bitcoin and ether. Additionally, in March 2021, Tesla began supporting bitcoin for car payments, though it stopped doing so in May, just a few months after.<\/p>\n

That was credited to the environmental impact of crypto, with Tesla saying it was \u201cconcerned about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n

PYMNTS wrote that the Dogecoin Foundation, formed as a way to achieve Musk\u2019s goals of \u201cputting the cryptocurrency on the moon,\u201d wants people to take the meme-based coin more seriously.<\/p>\n

See also: <\/strong>Dogecoin: The Meme-Coin\u2019s Eight Part \u2018Trailmap\u2019 Leads to the Point of Sale<\/a><\/p>\n

The project now has a board and advisors, and a literal \u201cTrailmap\u201d which comes with a way forward to help redesign the site and eventually make a point-of-sale decentralized app to make it usable as a currency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Manifesto was our attempt at capturing everything the community wanted from the dogecoin project: a \u2018currency of the people, for the people and by the people\u2019, something humanity could really use to buy a coffee or pay the rent,\u201d the project said.<\/p>\n

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NEW PYMNTS DATA: AUTHENTICATING IDENTITIES IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY \u2013 DECEMBER 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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About:<\/strong>More than half of U.S. consumers think biometric authentication methods are faster, more convenient and more trustworthy than passwords or PINs \u2014 so why are less than 10% using them? PYMNTS, in collaboration with Mitek, surveyed more than 2,200 consumers to better define this perception versus use gap and identify ways businesses can boost usage.<\/p>\n

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