Gabe Newell: Bitcoin on Steam is Unlikely and Here's Why
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....
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Any steam game code can be purchased at 25% off retail on newly launched HYPER steam game code store Hyperbundle to celebrate Bitcoin Black Friday. The team will continue selling steam games below retail into the future as well as offering exclusive indy game bundles. Alinamedia.com - a Swedish web development firm currently building a new cryptocurrency exchange platform - has announced the launch of Hyperbundle.com offering 25% off any steam game code to celebrate Bitcoin Black Friday. To claim the 25% off customers simply use the coupon code #hyperblackfriday when submitting an order.....
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....