The Steam storefront is going to start accepting Bitcoin payments in the near future. Initially reported by PCGamesN, Valve has revealed the move to developers on the Steam developer forums.

These forums are not accessible to the public, but a screenshot of Valve’s post has since appeared on Reddit. The company is using an “external payment provider” to process Bitcoin payments, according to the post.

“Bitcoin is becoming an increasingly popular online payment method in some countries, and we’re enabling a system that insulates partners from risk and volatility while still providing value to the end customer,” wrote Valve.

Customers who wish to use this option will be charged the price already set in their local currency. The mediator will then convert that amount into Bitcoin based on a daily exchange rate.

“So the user pays [the amount] in Bitcoin, and the [payment provider] pays [Valve] in traditional currency. At no time does Valve receive or hold Bitcoin,” continued the post.

According to Valve, this process removes the need for developers to keep track of Bitcoin prices, while at the same time makes their games available to buy using one more currency.
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So until approximately year 2140, every new block generated will be with fixed reward (x BTCs per block generated reward). But after this date, block will be generated but with no reward at all. however, those blocks will still collect transaction fee.

Am I missing something? 

Yes.

Suppose someone posts their address in their signature. And then use the same username on other social media sites. With careful trawling of other sites, you can glean clues to who they are. Some people's Facebook profiles list the school they went to, the university they went to, where they live. Plus they post pictures of themselves, so you can pinpoint them with facial recognition technology. You can even entice them into an email correspondence - and most people have their real name on their email profile. For example with yahoo, even though your email will say cutepseudonym@yahoo.com, when you actually receive an email from the person, their name is at the top...

Put all that together, and you have matched the identity to the email address and their bitcoin address.

If you are in Australia I wouldn't bother.  Around 80% of the cigarettes I have ordered have been seized by customs and I have lost quite a bit of money trying.   

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i think this is good surveey to knowing that bitcoin has develop better in Ireland,i wish some europan countries follow this step to get accurate and sasified respond.

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Double-spending in the Bitcoin world is becoming a very rare occurrence, but that doesn’t mean it is impossible to pull off this type of attack. BitBet, an online gambling platform, fell victim to such an attack earlier today as a result of several of their transactions not being included in the Bitcoin Node mempool. This entire situation is sparking a lot of debate and conspiracy theories as to why one particular transaction was broadcasted twice on the network, although it is rather a stretch to claim malicious intent at this stage.
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This fifth Bitcoin transaction used different inputs, yet the same outputs as all of the four previous transactions. Lo and behold, this transaction was picked up by Bitcoin nodes rather quickly and confirmed within thirty minutes. The issue got finally sorted, and the winners got their payouts as promised, albeit with a slight delay.

Imagine their surprise when they received a second transaction shortly afterwards, which was the very first transfer sent by BitBet. That transfer had gone unconfirmed for close to a week now, and suddenly got broadcasted by Bitcoin Nodes. It remains unknown as to why this transaction was re-broadcasted, or who was responsible for this event, but it has cost BitBet a fair amount of money.
 

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Coinsecure, the leading Indian Bitcoin trading platform, has announced that it has secured $1.2 million as part of its ongoing ‘Series A’ investment round, opened in January this year.

The funding round is expected to be closed soon and upon completion, the company has plans to enter the Blockchain based enterprise solutions domain. Mohit Kalra, the Founder and CEO of Coinsecure, said:

“The funds raised by the company will be used to expand the company’s reach in both domestic and international markets. Coinsecure will also be using these funds to further explore global markets and to introduce Ethereum and other Blockchain innovations.”

Founded in July 2014 by Mohit Kalra and Benson Samuel, Coinsecure launched its Bitcoin exchange on January 1, 2015. The concept of cryptocurrency is very new in India and the company has been working on bringing legitimacy to this emerging technology. Coinsecure started off with the mission of “Connecting India to Bitcoin” and is now gradually shifting towards “Building the Bitcoin and Blockchain Ecosystem in India”.
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Bitcoin trading platform Coinsecure has raised over $1.2 million from a group of undisclosed angel investors from India. The company said this fund raise is part of its ongoing Series A round.

The funds will be  utilised to expand the company’s reach in both domestic and international markets, and introduce Ethereum and other Blockchain innovations. The funds will also go into strengthening the marketing and engineering teams, increase the banking partners and develop the app, which will be launched by the end of this month. The company also plans to increase the number of employees from 20 to 30 by the end of this year.
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What is the issue exactly?

thanks for your reply.

your answers are contradictory. Who is right between Amph and alyssa85? Even if the number of BTC is finite is the number of blocks infinite?

to me it's fortunejack, because it has a unique style to treat bets in bitcoina and altcoins the "only" way, nothing linked with CC or skrill, or something like that... purelly to btc and altcoin community player...
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We have donated the funds (0.057BTC) from our floppy disk raffle challenge to this raffle...

1) I already reached out to Anton, gave him my reasoning , what happened from my point of view, and another theory of this chaos

4) I'll change the way the kelly system works to avoid similar things happened in the future

WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message personally last month during a trip to Washington, telling lawmakers that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.