Bitcoin Forum

I just noticed that on Steam, I went to purchase something and as a payment option Bitcoin was there. I tried it and it is extremely easy and simple. How long has this been there?

Maybe one month ago. Steam accepted Bitcoin for payment..

Has it been a month already? I could have sworn it was only a week or two ago.

Either way, Steam now fully accepts Bitcoin. Bovada recently started accepting Bitcoin, too. Probably doesn't mean for those who aren't interested in online gambling, but for those who are, Bovada is huge. Largest poker site in US and third largest worldwide.

Maybe,1 or 2 month ago steam accepted payment with bitcoin, I think steam know the bitcoin market is profitable and many users bitcoin for now.and Why bitcoin payment in steam is very easy and simple because it's steam offer to bitcoin users and make bitcoin users interesting with this.

Another good step for bitcoin! Looks like every services and products sold online will play along with bitcoin as mode of payment. Steam for example is a big company which might pull other company to use bitcoin. Payment using bitcoin is on hype now, i would not be shocked if it will be shown in world televisions.

that is what i said the first time i heard about this great news, it will take time for people to realize this even those who already know about bitcoin. and the rest will also notice bitcoin and the usage will grow over time.

yea only been like 3 weeks

This was one of the most anticipated events, we Bitcoin gamers were waiting for, and I would have thought that they would have announced that with some big special deals or discounts? I think they might just be testing the water to see if there are a need for this option.

We need to support this, or it might be taken down as a payment option in future. Even if you are not a gamer, just buy some games as some Xmas/Birthday gifts for someone who might be one.

This is precisely the point! Only technology readers actually know Steam added Bitcoin to payment options, there was no publicity, no pop-up when u start Steam saying you can now pay in Bitcoin..

it was 27 April

Steam accepts Bitcoins On April 27
Valve itself turned to BitPay payment service with a proposal to integrate it into their gaming platform. The company was primarily interested in is to allow Bitcoin payment players in emerging markets - India, China and Brazil, where credit cards are used less frequently than in developed countries.

If you want original news, here is Bitpay's full statement on their official blog, regarding bitcoin steam acceptance: https://blog.bitpay.com/load-your-steam-wallet-using-bitcoin/ (https://blog.bitpay.com/load-your-steam-wallet-using-bitcoin/)

already a month ago steam accepted bitcoin,are you not active on forum?i think everone has know this since the first tim steam accept bitcoin.
and that's was a great move from bitcoin,i will wait next company that accept bitcoin.

no wonder the steam accepting bitcoin news did not anythign to the price, there are still people that don't know about it

and you are just one case, i bet the majority are still using their cc or paypal....

This is so great that steam is introducing the bitcoin to the gamers. Allot of publicity came for the butcoin
while there are many others who doesn't know anything about the coin these years and days.

Such a nice thing that steam uses the bitcoin paying method everybody can now buy games with their bitcoins.
I think if steam made this possible other big company's will follow steam to the future of the bitcoin.

it is not just about how frequently they use credit cards.
most of the steam users are minor (younger people and many kids) and all over the world none of them have credit cards because they are underage or it is too soon to have a credit card so they either have to pay using their parents or they can easily use bitcoin with their own wallet.

It is perfect that you can now use Bitcoin as a payment method on Steam and so there will be also more people that is going to buy more on Steam because it is now acceptable.
There are now more people that is using Bitcoin as their payment method and that is perfect for the currency itself.

Exactly! That's what I was not thinking. Yes, this is also the cause of integration Bitcoins.
Bitcoin is still a great thing, for all ages.
However, there exist games that are intended for persons over 18 years.

It has been there not to long ago I believe that it has only been a month or so. But this will definitely benefit them both without a doubt.
With this both Bitcoin and Steam can become more and more popular.

actually, steam has started to accepting bitcoin as their payment processor just about 2 weeks ago by looking to few threads which inform that steam starting to accept bitcoin recently,for example : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1459264.0
but it still have the chance to be removed, maybe it's for testing purpose so,will be looking forward

Seems like you weren't active enough in the forums back then. The bitcoin adoption from steam was kind of a fuzz nearly a month ago. A lot of people have actually been using it and as far as I know, I haven't seen any report or issues myself and from other people.

Its been quite a month and they are getting lots of bitcoin transactions these days. They are using bitpay payment gateway to process all purchases via bitcoin with 0 confirmation required that is instant purchase can be made via bitcoin.

Bitcoin has been on Steam for quite a while. Have you check Microsoft? Microsoft accepts bitcoin now.

Its pretty nice that steam is now accepting the bitcoin and I already now did use it for one game.
Its a nice service they are offering and the payment transactions with the bitcoin is pretty fast.

Yeah its a good news for those who addicted play online games.. also here i my country which is our wallet too are offering to buy on steam bitcoin as payment also shells to garena and league of legends.. and i think adoption for bitcoin are increase year by year.. and i hope more store will accept bitcoin as payment..

Its very good news for these people plus the fact is also that because of this the bitcoin will also gain more popularity.
Every big company will help the bitcoin to gain more publicity if it steps into the bitcoin..

I don't understand why people buy with BTCs there. In comparision with my country money for example the values aren't right. BTC costs more on a Exchange than on Steam shop.

It's a great update for sure, but they are devaluating the real price of BTC.

wow so they really started to accept bitcoins now , this is really good for the market
I have read an article about Steam one month ago I guess and they stated that they may accept bitcoins in the future but now it's official as I see
it's really amazing to see such big name dealing  with BTC

it has been official when they sent out emails to their developers saying they will add bitcoin even before the actually added it.
and you can easily check that,. just open up steam any of the markets and try to buy something and you will see there is a bitcoin logo alongside other things like credit card.

Yes it was quite an awesome find; if you haven’t yet figured it out; even larger agencies such as Microsoft and Newegg are accepting your bitcoin as payment. Newegg even pays it’s affiliates with bitcoin, so for those of you who are willing to make a website niche based around computer technology and want to receive bitcoin as payment for your affiliation, I suggest you go to Newegg.

I thought Microsoft announced that they stopped accepting bitcoin?

Only in some countries. In Australia, Microsoft doesn't accept bitcoin yet.

A win for bitcoin. Bitcoin being accepted on Steam will increase its legitimacy status and increase awareness to bitcoin.

Yes big merchants have now started accepting bitcoin payments as you can microsoft have also started accepting bitcoin. You can also buy Dell laptops with bitcoin.

I also love playing games in steam and now i can purchase games with currency i love (bitcoin).

Yes, this obviously will be better for the company seeing as how its customers will be able to deal direct to the company so they'll be more secure (this eliminates the middleman who sells steam codes at higher prices, be limited in stock and who could very well scam) and it also means that people like me who doesn't deal via CreditCard can deal with Bitcoin which I can buy without the need of the latter through other non-conventional means :) - works here in the Philippines :D

I now bought one game with the bitcoin and it was pretty easy indeed, its feels nice to pay steam games with the bitcoin although it feels a bit weird.

Yea I’ve been using bitcoins as payment for a while now, it was announced in late April, about the same time I joined Steam. If you’re a steam user and you use bitcoins as your daily income, I recommend using bitcoins as payment; you will need an app on you pc to make the transaction and it should be done within 45minutes.

Personal tipp
if want to buy cheap games with btc visit kinguin.net

bought more than 100 games there, example from last week Overwatch, Doom 33€ instead of 60€

Haven't tried this just yet, as I still got funds on my Steam wallet. Does anyone know where to find Steam gift cards/wallet codes directly for btc?

what do you mean with steam gift cards, ive only seen games sent as gift

They are using their heads because if they use it in the game more gamers will try to use bitcoin and to attract more people to use bitcoin.. because players or game addicts are have a skills to understand the concept of bitcoin..
Now i already bought 100 shells in garena using bitcoins..

Looks like more store are accepting bitcoin as payment and i think more store will accept bitcoin as payment.. and i am also waiting here in my country burger king can accept bitcoin as payment.. maybe it will happen in the future.. so that i can buy burger anytime without bringing fiat..

Our local wallet exchange here in our country now also offering their service to use bitcoin in Steam. Also with MOL points and Garena Shells.

MOL and Garena shells doesn't have any fee but for Steam I think around $10 to $15 percent.

It's great that Steam actually accepts Bitcoin. I tried it once, and it was quick and simple.

The bitcoin on steam is very nice if you ask me and I think that the bitcoin has a good future with it.
Its not known by a lot of people right now but this will happen anytime soon.

You are right about that its still not used a lot but this will change, I now tried it once and its working pretty well and everything went also very fast in the overall experience I can really recommend it.

The time will learn us, its all a matter of time, the fact is that people from do not know what it is but it also will make people use the bitcoin because they are gonna be interested so this is a good step a head from steam itself.

After i heard steam started to accept bitcoin for payments i also get interested to try their games and currently paying some free war games and it is feeling good and willing to buy CS:GO from them soon. Steam is sure to drive some interest on bitcoin to the gamers.

I wouldn't say this was anticipated; it actually came as a surprise for us regular steam users. If you followed the reddit, you will realise that Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve has pointed out he's issues on bitcoin. Here is what he said, "There are two related issues: one is treating a crypto-currency as another currency type that we support and the broader issue is monetary behaviors of game economies. The first issue is more about crypto-currencies stabilizing as mediums of account." As you can tell he wasn't really willing to accept bitcoin. So a month after this post it was quite a surprise to see bitcoin in the payment options.

I also tried it once and its working well, not a lot of people are already now it these days but its very easy and it will get more popular in the upcoming months I'm pretty sure of that.

That steam is accepting is just super but now its only need to gain more popularity so it will be used a lot more.

I hope bitcoin will have some other great parties that start accepting it. It's very good for bitcoin's marketing and since there is no active marketing team, bitcoin needs the help of every marketing. Steam being a major party is what we need.

theirs no doubt we can see more acceptance in future where in digittal ages and bitcoins is a great break through to financial transactions and for steam acceptance well theirs a big possibilities that other shops will open doors to bitcoin users and accept it as their mop and i will not be surprise if amazon and ebay will accept bitcoin in future because it is talk over the mouth for the bitcoin users globally,

Surely with that we can see more online business shops accepting bitcoin since bitcoin market is wider globally and maybe some of them are looking unto bitcoins now and make some marketing studies that it will profitable and convenient for them if the adopt it, and surely future will be great and next year there will be another online shop adoption will be happen and many people use bitcoins in future.