{"id":71036,"date":"2014-12-11T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T12:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71036"},"modified":"2014-12-11T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T12:03:25","slug":"buy-new-games-with-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/71036-buy-new-games-with-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Buy new games with Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft now accepts Bitcoin for its Xbox digital games and the company&#8217;s apps. Well, in a manner of speaking.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by CoinDesk, the digital currency can be used to add funds to your Microsoft Account, but can&#8217;t, at this stage, be used to purchase games and services directly.<\/p>\n<p>So you can use Bitcoin to add money to your Microsoft Account to get content like Xbox games, music, and videos &#8211; but you can&#8217;t get direct services like Office 365.<\/p>\n<p>There was no big announcement about the move from Microsoft, according to reports &#8211; the digital currency has simply shown up as a payment option for funding your Microsoft Account.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and this is only available in the USA for now. Naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s acceptance of Bitcoin puts it ahead of companies like Apple and Google. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Bitcoin, here&#8217;s a brief explanation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s4g1XFU8Gto?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/12\/11\/7375771\/microsoft-supports-bitcoin-payments\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/70960-new-pc-overclocking-world-record-set-see-the-hardware.html\">New PC overclocking world record set \u2013 see the hardware<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/70956-will-lara-still-float-your-boat.html\">Will Lara still float your boat?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/70928-all-the-game-reveals-and-awards-you-missed.html\">All the game reveals and awards you missed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The digital currency can now be used to buy Xbox games and Microsoft apps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":71038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13160,21,91,243],"class_list":["post-71036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bitcoin","tag-headline","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71040,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71036\/revisions\/71040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}