{"id":90083,"date":"2016-04-22T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90083"},"modified":"2016-04-22T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:22:14","slug":"bitcoin-payments-coming-to-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90083-bitcoin-payments-coming-to-steam","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin payments coming to Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam users will soon be able to buy games with Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>This follows confirmation on Steam&#8217;s private developer forums and via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Database<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steam won&#8217;t be accepting Bitcoin payments from users directly. Rather, they will accept monetary payment from an external payment provider who will convert Bitcoins into dollars for Valve.<\/p>\n<p>Developers and publishers will continue to receive regular payments and no additional action is required from their side.<\/p>\n<p>This could also prove to be another interesting workaround for users who wish to bypass their local currency inflation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bitcoin payments are coming soon to Steam, they will use the local currency prices and convert during checkout. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zSZ3ueVIEU\">pic.twitter.com\/zSZ3ueVIEU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steam Database (@SteamDB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteamDB\/status\/723230754113724416\">April 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 things you need to know before you buy Ratchet and Clank\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/89989-5-things-you-need-to-know-before-you-buy-ratchet-and-clank.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 things you need to know before you buy Ratchet and Clank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome PC gaming gadgets \u2013 South African pricing\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88889-awesome-pc-gaming-gadgets-south-african-pricing.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome PC gaming gadgets \u2013 South African pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Asus ROG unveils massively powerful gaming PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/89947-asus-rog-unveils-massively-powerful-gaming-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Asus ROG unveils massively powerful gaming PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam users will soon be able to buy games with Bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":88839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,13160,17482,85],"class_list":["post-90083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-bitcoin","tag-payment","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90083","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90117,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90083\/revisions\/90117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}