Do you think if they accepted a certain crypto for payments of their service would it make it explode and be beneficial to them in any sort of way?
How can a payment method that is adopted by just a few percents of the population make a service like Disney+ explode? Disney+ will get more users in a few days than Bitcoin did in 11 years. When Steam and Fiverr dropped Bitcoin support, they didn't suffer and observable drop in revenue. Perhaps we should be asking how would Disney+'s adoption of Bitcoin affect its popularity as a currency and the price?
Also, going back to Disney+, they have to comply with a lot of regulations and as the result they don't operate in a lot of countries, including mine. If this wasn't the case, Bitcoin could have helped them to connect with audiences that can't conveniently buy their services otherwise.
What I meant was make the certain crypto they choose to use make it become more widely accepted thus increase its use not the platform disney has created.
My apologies for not making this point clear as others have read my statement this way too from the other informative feedback here has suggested.
Also someone did mention a disney division had dabbled in cryptocurrency with the coin dragonchain which I had heard of but did not know they had any involvement with. Will need to do some further research in the project to see if they plan on using it with their main business and not just
experiment with it.
Why would Disney bother? Why would any streamer bother? They want recurring payments that people are too lazy to cancel. Most would go under without them.
At present Disney has a rights problem, not a payment problem. I presume that's why it's launching next year in other territories.
I can't believe anyone there didn't think to attempt to clear up whatever issues there are because by the time it does launch they'll have lost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in business as people just pirated it rather than wait like good little consumers.
A very valid point to bring up since I think one of the reasons why they wanted to start a streaming service due to people just going online and downloading their copyrighted content by some other means.
But with their service their customers get way more then just the movies. They receive the extras as well from what they would get if they bought the bluray version for how ever much the movie costs online or in store.