one of the better cine admission purchasing platforms in the US, now enables movie-goers to buy cine tickets with bitcoin at 985 theaters.
The move was fabricated accessible through an affiliation with bitcoin transaction processor GoCoin. As a result, amphitheater chains that use the acclaim agenda processing casework offered by MovieTickets.com will be able to acquire bitcoin for any blur offered.
GoCoin CEO Steve Beauregard adumbrated that this includes Regal Cinemas, the nation's better amphitheater alternation with added than 500 locations. Holdouts conspicuously cover AMC Theaters, which itself boasts added than 300 locations in North America.
The affiliation is the latest betwen GoCoin and a cine industry firm, afterward the May advertisement that it was in talks with assembly flat Lionsgate Films.
Beauregard told CoinDesk:
"We anticipate that the approaching of agenda agreeable is getting able to use agenda currencies to acquirement content."
The advance was aggressive by the promotional action for Dope, the hit indie blur that denticulate big at Sundance and becoming high-profile celebrity admirers from James Franco to Russell Simmons.
MovieTickets.com CEO Joel Cohen appropriate that, however, the aggregation saw the abeyant in enabling the technology in added of its offerings.