Global Steam Community Can Now Use Bitcoin To Fund Their Account
It has been announced for quite some time now, but the updated Steam client has built-in Bitcoin payments. Everyone who updates their client should see the functionality enabled, as it has been made available for users all over the world. Although the updated Steam client does not state so per se, Bitcoin payments are now officially part of the platform. Users can add funds to their Steam wallet through Bitcoin, and considering how the payments are handled by BitPay, transactions should not take that long to complete. This gives all platform users around the world the opportunity to....
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