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    Steam No Longer Accepting Payments Using Bitcoin

    The digital currency Bitcoin is a very high surge in 2017's. The currency was initially not much dierhatikan have suddenly become very popular and even make some people willing to build a special rig to perform cryptomining or 'mine Bitcoin' which ultimately makes the price of graphics cards come soaring due to be developed by the miners.

    However, perhaps the miners Bitcoin who has struggled to find the coffers Bitcoin to shop, especially for shopping games on Steam now seems to bite the fingers. Because starting today, Valve has finally announced that Steam was no longer serve payment transactions using Bitcoin.


    This in itself is decided by Valve for the currency Bitcoin is considered unstable. And even can rise and fall dramatically which causes them difficulty to fix the price and the cost of payments to be imposed in the method of payment using Bitcoin. Valve even give examples of cases in which when the transaction is done and counted the number of Bitcoin. If the buyer does not immediately settle the payment then it could have been when the buyer signed a Bitcoin transaction exchange rate has changed from the initial value was agreed.

     

    Volatility of the value Bitcoin was the one who considered Valve makes it irrelevant as legal currency and pulling of payment options. Valve themselves say that they will reevaluate whether Bitcoin can still log back in later. But for now it seems the miners Bitcoin can not give mine output to Gaben.

     

     

    source: Steamcommunity

    8 december 2017 10:57 1625
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    This literately was announced in 2017. Please don't post 2 year old articles on this site.

    21 may 2019 16:29 1625
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    Bitcoin is too volatile to be used as a serious currency.

    5 october 2019 21:36 1625
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