Goodgame Studios Starts Taking Bitcoin Payments in US and Netherlands
Goodgame Studios has partnered with Bitcoin payment processing company BitPay to enable digital currency payments on its US and Netherlands-based platforms. The German gaming software company took the decision to accept Bitcoin only after receiving positive feedback from its customer-base, a large number of which are speculated to be using the decentralized cryptocurrency for payments. Using this speculation, Goodgame Studios now plans to integrate the new option in the in-gaming checkouts of its widely accessed games, including Empire: Four Kingdoms, Shadow Kinds and Big Farm. The....
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Goodgame Studios is one of the leading free-to-play, online games development companies. Today the company announced it was partnering up with BitPay and was now accepting Bitcoin payments. Goodgame Studios will now accept bitcoin for in-app purchases in big titles such as Empire and Big Farm. Goodgame Studios operates across the web and mobile platforms having already over 270 million registered users worldwide. With a rich talent pool of more than 1200 employees from over 60 nations, Goodgame Studios is the largest German employer in the gaming software industry. Bitcoin and the benefits....
The Law Association of the Netherlands has informed Plasman that accepting bitcoin is in breach of their regulations, which stipulate that lawyers must only accept payments directly into bank accounts. Plasman has contested this decision, and continues to accept payments in the currency. Are you in desperate need of legal advice in the Netherlands? Struggling with money transfers to pay for a lawyer after some unfortunate incident in an Amsterdam nightclub? Well, you can now hire one of the Netherlands' most high-profile criminal defence lawyers, and pay in bitcoin. Peter Plasman is one of....
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