AT&T is now one of the first few companies, and the first U.S. carrier, to accept bitcoin as payment thanks to a partnership between the mobile operator and the BitPay payment service. You’ll be able to pay using cryptocurrency either on AT&T’s website or through its myAT&T app. AT&T’s announcement doesn’t specify which cryptocurrencies it will accept, but the list of supported currencies on BitPay’s website suggests that Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Gemini USD, Paxos, and Circle’s US Dollar Coin should all be supported.
AT&T proudly advertises that it’s the first mobile operator in the US to accept cryptocurrency. However it’s far from the first major business overall. Earlier this month a group of retailers that included Whole Foods, Nordstrom and GameStop all announced that they would be accepting payments using cryptocurrency via the payment network Flexa.
And even when companies do accept cryptocurrencies, there’s data to suggest few people bother. Just months after PornHub announced that it would let users pay for pornography using cryptocurrency last year, reported that they ended up making up less than one percent of its total payments.
