Walmart has not partnered with Litecoin, despite a press release that was published today and reported by multiple news organizations. A Walmart spokesperson told CNBC that the press release is not authentic.
The press release, published at 9:30 ET, claimed that the two had formed a partnership that would see Walmart integrating Litecoin payments in all of its stores by the start of next month. It included quotations supposedly from Litecoin founder Charlie Lee, commenting on the blockchain platform’s faster payments.
However, indications that the press release may have been false were evident at the time of publication. It was distributed via a third-party channel and not shared via Walmart’s official press site. Further, it did not contain the financial safe harbor information often included in statements from public companies like Walmart.
Perhaps most vitally, the domain name included for „William White” was „walmart-corp.com”. As noted by The Block’s Steven Zheng, that domain
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