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Microsoft Quietly Starts Accepting Bitcoin As Payment Method
An anonymous reader writes A new page in the help guide in the payment information of Microsoft's website reveals that the Redmond giant is now accepting Bitcoin as a payment method for products and services on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox. Currently the payments must go through to credit a Microsoft Wallet account, and the service is initially only available to U.S. users. But the wording of the new page combines with an expansive year for Microsoft and a number of positive statements about Bitcoin from Bill Gates to indicate that this first step is more than just an experiment. Microsoft is now the largest commercial entity accepting the Bitcoin currency, which it processes via the BitPay system, thus protecting the company from fluctuations in the value of Bitcoin. Also at CNN Money.
I'm seriously starting to think that regular currency will be no more in the future. I should have started mining early though, you pretty much can't get bitcoins anymore without paying for them.
No, they are not accepting greenbacks, nor do most vendors. They accept 1s and 0s, which we all pretend are the same as actual physical greenbacks.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
The only statement here is that fools and their money are easily parted, and not quickly enough.
Microsoft has simply found another way to extract money from people who don't have ACTUAL money.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Your sarcasm meter needs adjusting.
you are being silly, most dollars in existence are data in federal reserve bank computers, physical currency a small fraction