ALERT! Amazon Will Accept Cryptocurrency SOON!! Which Altcoins Will PUMP!? - YouTube

Enterprise, enterprise….enterprise. The BIG  dogs of the world are getting gungho on crypto…

Us as individuals, who joined early can be  considered the innovators, early adopters… but  

now the enterprises who realize crypto is the  future can become part of the early majority.  

So who are the enterprises who will take the  road less traveled, diving into crypto to save  

their companies futures?? Tune in as we break  it down…because it’s time for Chico Crypto!!

Innovators, early adopters, early  majority…what do you mean Chico?  

Well have you ever heard of the technology  adoption lifecycle chart and curve? It’s  

a chart and model that describes the adoption  or acceptance of a new product or innovation,  

according to the demographic and psychological  characteristics of defined adopter groups.

#1 is the innovators, they make up  2.5 percent of the technology users.  

#2 are the early adopters. And they make up 13.5  percent of the technology users. #3 are the early  

majority and they make up 34.5 percent of the  technology’s users. #4 are the late majority and  

they make up 34.5 percent as well. And #5 are the  laggards….they make up 16 percent of the users.

So how does this curve fit into crypto…well,  

anyone who joined in 2013 or before, in my  opinion can be considered an early adopter.  

This was made up of mostly individuals, new  crypto companies, and barely any enterprises.  

Microsoft was one of the earliest, as they began  accepting bitcoin for some of their products.

With the crypto crash that followed 2013, we  fell into a small chasm…a point of questioning  

the technology, but after we crossed the Chasm,  and a new hype cycle began in 2016 it was time  

for a new batch of adopters. The early adopters.  A bunch of new users joined especially in 2017  

and some enterprises started to get into crypto.  This was when the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance  

was formed…things were looking good for the  tech as big names, Microsoft once again,  

and even JP Morgan jumped into the crypto  bandwagon. Also there were the likes of  

Jack Dorsey’s Square getting into the  crypto game, with Cashapp and Bitcoin.

But after 2017 and into 2018….we fell into the  big scary Chasm.The big crypto crash where BTC  

fell from 20k all the way down to 3k. This was  the biggest test and questioning of blockchain  

technology. Many people thought it was over…BTC  and crypto hadn’t broken into the mainstream….and  

proof of this, Microsoft stopped accepting  Bitcoin as a payment option in 2018…

Big names were backing out of crypto….Until we  crossed the chasm in 2019 and a new hype cycle  

started…leading us into where we are today.  The early majority phase. Where many, many  

individuals and enterprises are going full  throttle on bitcoin, crypto, and NFTs. 

We all know about the big names jumping in  now. Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Microstrategy,  

Tesla, and many others are  all joining the crypto train.  

Shoot there are even major sports arena’s  being named after crypto companies…the  

home of the Miami Heat, formerly American  Airlines Arena..is now named the FTX arena  

and just yesterday…the infamous Staples center  is being renamed to the crypto.com arena

There is no doubt, crypto has  broken into the mainstream…we  

are in the early majority phase…so the question  is…who is NEXT? Who is going to be the next  

enterprises to adopt crypto…and secure themselves  an early majority spot, in the future of crypto??

Everyone knows about Apple…CEO Tim Cook announced  that his company was looking at cryptocurrency  

just last week, firmly stating that  crypto was on the company’s radar,  

saying “there are other things that we’re  definitely looking at,” with regard to crypto,…

But what about an enterprise people  don’t necessarily know about??Well,  

Well…well how about Amazon?? There was news  yesterday that dropped…”Amazon was to stop  

accepting Visa's UK-issued credit cards over the  high fees” and the article states “"As a result of  

Visa's continued high cost of payments, we regret  that Amazon UK will no longer accept UK-issued  

Visa credit cards as of 19th of January 2022," an  Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

Hmmm I wonder why Visa is looking to use USDC  as payment rails? In March of this year it was  

announced Visa would be the first payments network  to settle transactions with the stablecoin.  

But what if Amazon could skip Visa  and just accept crypto and stablecoins  

itself?? Eliminating any visa fees….

Well it looks like that could be  happening. November 1st the news  

was broke that Amazon was looking to  hire a digital currency and blockchain  

expert…signalling their growing interest  in the crypto space. Interest how though??

From the CNBC article “According to a  recent job posting, Amazon’s payments  

acceptance and experience team is seeking  to hire an experienced product leader  

to develop Amazon’s Digital Currency and  Blockchain strategy and product roadmap.”

Their payments acceptance and experience team  is looking for a blockchain and crypto expert  

to help develop their strategy and product  roadmap. Amazon is looking to cut out all  

middlemen and go directly to the consumer through  blockchain technology which means cryptocurrency!!

Big news, but I have something even bigger!!  What about the World Economic Forum?  

First who are they?? Well the WEF is  an international non-governmental and  

lobbying organisation which is mostly funded  by its 1,000 member companies – typically  

global enterprises with more than  five billion US dollars in turnover!

A short list of some of their enterprise  strategic partners includes Deloitte,  

Ernst & Young, PWC, KPMG, Accenture,  IBM, Hitachi, WiPro and many many others.

Well the WEF has been going hard into  cryptocurrencies this year, putting out  

a community paper in June of this year titled  “cryptocurrencies: a guide to getting started.  

Specifically mentioning Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash,  Monero…but also in the scaling section-Algorand,  

Cardano, Celo, XRP Ledger, Solana and Steller….

This was big news when it dropped back in  June, and the cryptocurrencies mentioned  

got a big ole JUMP…but this was just  a community paper, if you go down into  

the authors of the paper, it was authored by  crypto names like Andressen Horowitz, Uniswap,  

Stellar…not one person from the World Economic  Forum authored this, but they did review it….

Now just 2 days ago, the WEF put  out not a community paper, but a  

whitepaper…titled “Articulating Value from Data”  and if we scroll down to the authors…there is  

a specific section of World Economic Forum  contributors and authors to this Paper…it’s  

different, it’s a whitepaper for  WEF and it’s member enterprises.

Now guess what cryptocurrencies they mention in  this whitepaper, on articulating value from Data??  

Only 1 is mentioned in this paper…in  the section 2.3 Data valuation for  

collaboration and innovation” under the section  innovator…they say “Ocean Protocol (Ocean) is  

an opensource protocol that enables data owners  and consumers – individuals and businesses – to  

exchange and monetize data and data-driven  services in a decentralized marketplace.  

The company introduced an initial framework for  pricing data that recognizes the unique features 

of information and reduces friction due to  seller paralysis and lack of market structure  

typical of data marketplaces. Ocean also recently  launched the Compute-to-Data environment, which 

allows computations to be run on data without  moving it – resolving the trade-off between data 

owners who want privacy and control, and  data buyers who want to access valuable data  

for analytics and to improve business outcomes  without liability. Ocean introduces algorithms  

as a new type of asset that can be public or  private and have a dynamic or a fixed price,  

just like data sets in their marketplace.

The WEF, considers Ocean protocol an  innovator of DATA, they specifically  

mentioned this in one of their own  whitepapers, not a community based one.

But this isn’t the first time  Ocean has been hailed by the WEF.  

In June of this year, the WEF released  the list of 100 technology pioneers for  

2021…which included many blockchain companies,  but only 3 with tokens. That was #1 AAVE,  

#2 Ocean Protocol & #3 Parity Technologies  aka Polkadot..and it goes even deeper than  

that…Ocean Protocol is actually one of  the 1000 member organization of the WEF…

Their ties to the world economic  Forum…go deeper than the OCEAN…and  

that’s just scratching the surface.  Cheers viewers, I’ll see you next time!