Valve Should Introduce Blockchain-based Authentication For Steam Users
Steam is one of the most popular gaming-related platforms in the world these days. As a result of that popularity, Steam is also attracting a bunch of unwanted attention from hackers and phishers, According to details released by Valve, roughly 77,000 Steam accounts get hijacked on a monthly basis. Even though Valve makes two-factor authentication for in-game item sales mandatory now, blockchain technology could play a major part in creating a better solution. Being one of the world’s most popular gaming-related platforms can be both a blessing and a curse at the same time. Steam is the....
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The team behind Steam, a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation offering digital rights management, multiplayer gaming and social networking services, has announced that the platform will officially begin to accept payments via bitcoin. CoinTelegraph has reached out to Bitpay for more information about their partnership with Steam. We will continue to update the article as we receive more information from the Bitpay team. Gaming giant Valve and the developers behind Steam hinted the integration of Bitpay on February 9, 2016, when some Steam users discovered a series....
Gaming and digital distribution platform Steam will now accept bitcoin payments from users around the world, a feature enabled by bitcoin payment processor BitPay. After whispers, rumors, and leaks that leads to the inevitable inclusion of a global currency for a global marketplace, Valve’s Steam, the biggest PC gaming platform and distributor in the world with some 125 million active users (2015 stats), has now started accepting bitcoin as a mode of payment. The announcement was made by BitPay, the payment processor who will enable bitcoin payments for Steam. BitPay revealed that Valve,....
Confirming a long-rumored move, gaming and digital media platform Steam is now accepting bitcoin payments through processing service BitPay. The announcement today confirms earlier reports that Valve, the company that operates Steam, had sought to add the digital currency as a payment option. Steam was said to have told its developer community in a recent update that it was moving to accept bitcoin. The platform draws millions of users on a daily basis, according to Steam's self-reported statistics, and as a platform attracts an engaged and tech-friendly user base. Past reporting indicates....
This past week, Valve, the parent company of the video game digital distribution service Steam updated its distribution onboarding guidelines. According to the newly updated rules, the company is banning any “applications built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs.”
Newly Updated Onboarding Guidelines for Steam Says ‘You Shouldn’t Publish’ Applications ‘Built on Blockchain,’ or ‘Allow the Exchange of NFTs, Cryptocurrencies’
Valve seems to have an issue with games that....
On Tuesday, the 5th of March, Gabe Newell, Valve 's co-founder and managing director of video game development, participated with other video game developers in a reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). The post, titled “WeAreA videogame developer AUA!“, currently has 3,469 points with 34,503 upvotes (the downvotes are probably gamers upset over the absence of any news on Half-Life 3). The answered questions dealt with various things like new Valve hardware, Gabe’s favourite non-Valve game (Mario 64), etc. It looks like Newell, (GabeNewellBellevue on reddit), isn’t too eager to accept Bitcoin as a....