$50K Order Paid to Dell in Bitcoin Was For Just One Server
Not terribly long ago, Dell CEO Michael Dell announced via social media that a customer had purchased $50,000 worth of equipment using nothing but bitcoin. The cost of the transaction was 85 bitcoins, and we assumed (along with others) that the customer must have purchased quite a few servers. Wrong. As it turns out, the $50,000 order was for just one server, NEWSBTC has learned. Shortly after our post on the news in early August, I received an email from an individual claiming to have made the purchase - wanting to clarify that it was just one PowerEdge server that had been purchased, and....
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