Bitpay Enables You to Buy Xbox Games and Music Using Bitcoin.
December 11, 2014 — Microsoft now accepts bitcoin. Enabled by bitpay, the tech giant now allows users to spend their bitcoins on Microsoft Content. The announcement was originally published on Firehose, Microsoft’s news blog, but even before the official announcement the bitcoin community noticed the customer support page titled “How do I use Bitcoin with my Microsoft account.” Users can add bitcoin to their Microsoft account, but are not yet able to directly purchase digital goods. “You can now use Bitcoin to add money to your Microsoft account. Once you add money to your Microsoft....
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Global bitcoin processor and merchant payment solutions provider BitPay has partnered with online multiplayer gaming giant Wargaming to enable their massively-multiplayer online (MMO) gaming platform to accept bitcoin. Wargaming is the leader in MMO gaming and has released 15 popular strategy-based games including World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes over the past few years. All of the company’s games are free to play and the Wargaming platform enables players to customize weapons and vehicles used in the game. With the integration of BitPay, users of the Wargaming....