[2016-02-08] Gaming Giant Valve to Offer Bitcoin Payments with BitPay

[themerkle]

Valve Corporation, an American video game developer and digital distribution firm is planning to offer bitcoin as a payment option to its global user base of 125 million active users.

According to the readouts from Steam translation servers, the Steam DRM platform will most likely offer bitcoin payments in the upcoming months, with the following BitPay command lines released by the company:

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Bitcoin transactions are authorized through the BitPay website. Click the button below to open a new web browser to initiate the transaction.

bitcoin_payment_tips_header Tips for Bitcoin customers

Read More: http://themerkle.com/news/gaming-giant-valve-to-offer-bitcoin-payments-with-bitpay/

[Kakmakr]

This is huge news for us people, and possibly the one thing that might be pushing us into the mainstream. A lot of people have been asking for this, and other websites have been offering a similar services to offer games purchased online.

BitPay has not made any official announcement? I look forward to this, let's hope it's not just rumors. 

[BellaBitBit]

super super news!  I like Bitcoin coupling with anything Gaming.  Will watch this.

[Lethn]

Holy shit, if that's true, I will be absolutely giddy, do we know if this news is legitimate? Lets look for confirmation please, this is a rather obscure news site so they could just be posting this for clicks.

[Minecache]

Been waiting for this. Hope it's true.