Dogecoin payments integrated by billionaire Elon Musk into any of his companies have been a hot topic of discussion for a number of years now. With Musk eventually taking over Twitter and rebranding it to X, expectations were that DOGE payments on the social media platform would be happening soon. While this is yet to come, there are clues that point to Musk possibly preparing to integrate DOGE payments, as community members have pointed out.

億萬富翁伊隆馬斯克將狗狗幣支付整合到他的任何一家公司中，多年來一直是討論的熱門話題。隨著馬斯克最終接管 Twitter 並將其重新命名為 X，人們期望社交媒體平台上的 DOGE 支付很快就會實現。儘管這一切尚未實現，但正如社區成員所指出的那樣，有線索表明馬斯克可能準備整合 DOGE 支付。

Musk Builds Out Custom Dogecoin Payment System For Tesla

馬斯克為特斯拉打造客製化狗狗幣支付系統

Tesla, one of Musk’s companies, in 2021 had implemented Bitcoin payments for its electric vehicles before halting the feature shortly after. Since then, the company has not accepted crypto payments for its vehicles but it has implemented crypto payments for merchandize and that crypto was Dogecoin.

馬斯克的公司之一特斯拉於 2021 年為其電動車實施了比特幣支付，但不久後就停止了該功能。從那時起，該公司不再接受其車輛的加密支付，但它已實施商品的加密支付，而該加密就是狗狗幣。

Following the integration of Dogecoin payments, one community member who goes by @Dogecoin_Wins took to X (formerly Twitter) to share a particularly interesting fact about how the company chose to go about this implementation. They note that instead of the automotive manufacturer going the same way as other companies who used a third-party service to implement crypto payments, Elon Musk-led Tesla had actually built out its own DOGE-only payment system.

在整合狗狗幣支付之後，一位名為 @Dogecoin_Wins 的社群成員在 X（以前稱為 Twitter）上分享了一個關於該公司如何選擇實施此實施的特別有趣的事實。他們指出，馬斯克（Elon Musk）領導的特斯拉實際上建立了自己的僅 DOGE 支付系統，而不是像其他公司那樣使用第三方服務來實施加密支付。

This payment system based entirely on the blockchain is significant in the fact that it is no small feat. As the Dogecoin community member points out, Musk would’ve had to hire a number of staff including “blockchain experts, devs, security pros.” Not only this, there is also the issue of hiring “customer service agents who know how to work within the blockchain for refunds, and field more complicated questions than what CS agents are used to.”

這個完全基於區塊鏈的支付系統意義重大，因為它不是一件小事。正如狗狗幣社群成員所指出的那樣，馬斯克將不得不僱用許多員工，包括「區塊鏈專家、開發人員、安全專家」。不僅如此，還存在僱用“客戶服務代理的問題，他們知道如何在區塊鏈內進行退款，並回答比 CS 代理習慣的更複雜的問題。”

All in all, the company would’ve had to have spent a significant amount of resources to build out this infrastructure. The community member puts the figure for this around 7 figures. Now, for a company the scale of Tesla, building out such an expensive and time-consuming infrastructure instead of using a third party could point to the fact that they intend to continue to use the product, and not just for merchandise alone. Given this, the community member concludes that “Elon’s serious about Doge.”

總而言之，該公司必須花費大量資源來建造這項基礎設施。社區成員給出的數字約為 7 位數。現在，對於像特斯拉這樣規模的公司來說，建造如此昂貴且耗時的基礎設施而不是使用第三方可能表明他們打算繼續使用該產品，而不僅僅是為了商品。有鑑於此，社區成員得出結論：“埃隆對 Doge 是認真的。”

Why Build A DOGE-Only Payment Infrastructure?

為什麼要建置僅限 DOGE 的支付基礎設施？

In a follow-up post, the Dogecoin community member shared their own beliefs about why Tesla built out this infrastructure. According to them, this was not just for Tesla merchandise payments. Rather, the first reason is that the company wanted to build its own native Dogecoin payment processor.

在後續貼文中，狗狗幣社群成員分享了他們對特斯拉為何建造這項基礎設施的看法。據他們稱，這不僅僅是特斯拉商品付款。相反，第一個原因是該公司想要建立自己的本地狗狗幣支付處理器。

Next, they state that the company is also trying to train its own customer service team in specific blockchain technology. Also, they are looking to learn the common problems that could come with accepting a cryptocurrency like Dogecoin for payments.

接下來，他們表示該公司也正在嘗試對自己的客戶服務團隊進行特定區塊鏈技術的培訓。此外，他們還希望了解接受狗狗幣等加密貨幣進行支付時可能出現的常見問題。

The fourth reason outlined is that the company is trying to learn and come up with solutions to problems that could arise from crypto payments. The fifth is that they are trying to do all of this “with a limited selection of low volume/low priced/low risk merchandise sales.”

概述的第四個原因是該公司正在嘗試學習並提出加密支付可能出現的問題的解決方案。第五，他們正試圖「透過有限的小批量/低價/低風險商品銷售選擇」來完成這一切。

@Dogecoin_Wins closes out the thread with a succinct statement:

@Dogecoin_Wins 用簡潔的語句結束了這個線程：

It’s much easier to go through this learning process selling $20 coffee mugs than $80,000 cars. Knowing that, the true intent of investing all this effort is not to sell coffee mugs and belt buckles. It’s to sell cars, eventually.

銷售 20 美元的咖啡杯比銷售 80,000 美元的汽車要容易得多。要知道，投入所有這些努力的真正目的並不是為了銷售咖啡杯和皮帶扣。最終是為了賣車。