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Microsoft Store No Longer Accepts Bitcoins As Payment (techtimes.com)

Posted by timothy on from the just-slip-the-money-in-the-floppy-drive dept.

westlake writes: It may come as a surprise to many here [but not all! -- Ed.], but back in December 2014, Microsoft began accepting Bitcoin.as payments for apps, games, and music purchased through the Windows Store, for its Win 10, Windows Phone and Xbox customers. Big-ticket items like MS Office were excluded. The service has been quietly discontinued. Crypto-currencies may excite the geek, but the Windows Store is mass-market and middle class, and the interest just might not be there.

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  1. Re:Haha by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    My local mall has a Microsoft Store right across from an Apple Store. Microsoft Store was always empty, Apple Store was always full. Go figure.

  2. Re:MS Store is instant delivery, but BitCoin is no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since you're comparing to Visa, you might prefer to use CoinBase.com to make BitCoiN-backed online money transfers instantly and cheaply. Both of them require trust in a third party and can be reversed after the fact, but are capable of an extremely high number of cheap transactions per second.

    If you're thinking "but BitCoiN is supposed to be P2P and trustless!" then why would you compare it to Visa? It's more analogous to mailing someone a brick of gold.

    I apologize if someone advertised BitCoiN to you as "free" or even capable of Visa-level scaling yet, because it isn't.