American movie house giant AMC Theatres is steadily budgeted its goal of accepting cryptocurrency payments by year-end, now debuting crypto purchases for electronic gift cards.

AMC customers tin at present buy digital gift cards with cryptocurrencies similar Bitcoin (BTC) directly through the AMC website, mobile app and theaters, CEO Adam Aron announced on Tuesday.

The new payment selection was enabled through major crypto payments processor BitPay, allowing consumers to purchase e-cards of upward to $200, Aron noted.

The CEO paid special attention to Dogecoin (DOGE) amidst the digital avails accepted for AMC eastward-menu purchases. Aron hinted in September that AMC will include DOGE in the list of cryptocurrencies accepted for tickets by the end of 2022.

Aron had conducted a poll of 140,000 people on Twitter, asking the customs whether AMC should have DOGE payments for tickets. "It's clear that yous think AMC should have Dogecoin. Now nosotros need to effigy out how to practise that. Stay tuned," Aron said at the fourth dimension.

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As previously reported, Aron announced the company's plans to accept Bitcoin payments for film tickets in August, expecting to have rolled out the new payment pick by 2022. The movie concatenation also plans to support 4 other cryptocurrencies — the aforementioned DOGE, Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and Bitcoin Greenbacks (BCH).

Earlier this year, Major Cineplex Group, the largest movie house operator in Thailand, launched a payment pilot allowing customers to purchase tickets with cryptos.