UAE-Based Airline ‘Emirates’ Says It Is Planning to Accept Bitcoin for Payments
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, Emirates COO Adel Ahmed Al-Redha said at this year’s Arabian Travel Market (ATM) event in Dubai that his company will “hire new staff for metaverse and non-fungible tokens, also known as NFTs, in an effort to develop applications to monitor customer needs.”He also revealed that Emirates “plans to employ Bitcoin as a payment service while adding NFT collectibles on the company’s websites for trading.”In March, DAMAC Properties, a leading real estate developer in the UAE, reportedly launched a metaverse project. According to a report by Unlock, the first hint that Ali Hussain Sajwani, who “oversees day-to-day operations” at DAMAC, was thinking about the world of blockchain technology, NFTs, and the metaverse came “when he published on twitter a survey where he noted that more than 30 percent of respondents believe NFTs… will be used in the real estate sector.”Apparently, Sajwani “first revealed his intention to launch DAMAC Metaverse project during the second AMA session for NFTyRacer with CryptoBear Watch Club which was posted on twitter on February 15th 2022″ and during this AMA session he “spoke about his support of Crypto Bear Watch Club as well as the upcoming DAMAC Metaverse project.”