The leading tech corporate giant is hiring a business development manager with Crypto Experience as well as alternative payments.
On Tuesday, Apple’s careers website listed a job vacancy for a Business Development Manager, Alternative Payments. As per the job description, whoever is hired as Business Development Manager – Alternative Payments will be in charge of building partnerships with alternative payment providers which clearly indicates that the tech giant is going towards accepting crypto-payments.
The job post indicates an interest in digital assets, but Apple has not shown or expressed any interest in expanding to the crypto space yet.
As far as speculations go, many expected Apple to join the crypto trend sooner or later. The news about Tesla buying $4 billion worth of Bitcoins turned the crypto world upside down with excitement. Finally, the world’s largest companies were taking note of Bitcoin.
When it comes to Public companies that have invested in cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is their defacto choice, followed by Ethereum. As per Coingecko, public companies hold 0.96% dominance in the crypto market. The public companies own a total of 180,957.3858 Bitcoins, whose total value is $6,967,190,073 at the current rate. As for the number of public companies that have invested in Bitcoin, the current number stands at 24.
The top three public companies holding the largest volume of Bitcoins are MicroStrategy with 92,079 Bitcoins, Tesla with 48,000 Bitcoins, and Galaxy Digital Holdings with 16,402 Bitcoins. Most of the public companies holding Bitcoins in their treasury are based in Canada & the United States. As of now, 7 out of 24 public companies having invested in Bitcoin are from the United States, whereas 10 are from Canada.
