{"id":90693,"date":"2016-04-28T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90693"},"modified":"2016-04-28T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:15:52","slug":"steam-now-officially-supports-bitcoin-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90693-steam-now-officially-supports-bitcoin-payments","title":{"rendered":"Steam now officially supports Bitcoin payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve\u00a0and payment-processing company Bitpay have partnered to allow users to load their <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bitpay.com\/load-your-steam-wallet-using-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Steam wallets with bitcoin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bitpay said Valve wanted a \u201cfast, international payment method\u201d for users in emerging gaming markets, like\u00a0India, China, and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile more users are coming online in these countries, traditional payment options like credit cards often aren\u2019t available,\u201d said Bitpay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Steam\u2019s bitcoin integration, customers will be able to use any bitcoin wallet to scan, pay, and get back to gaming in seconds without having to provide sensitive financial information.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/163332-steam-now-lets-users-pay-for-games-with-bitcoin.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More <strong>gaming news<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The future of competitive gaming in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88255-the-future-of-competitive-gaming-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The future of competitive gaming in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Incredible gaming and tech deals at Dion Wired\u2019s Somerset and Gateway re-launch sales\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90538-incredible-gaming-deals-at-dion-wireds-somerset-and-gateway-re-launch-sales.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Incredible gaming and tech deals at Dion Wired\u2019s Somerset and Gateway re-launch sales<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome geeky suits for the serious gamer\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90307-awesome-geeky-suits-for-the-serious-gamer.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome geeky suits for the serious gamer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve and payment-processing company Bitpay have partnered to allow users to load their Steam wallets with bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":90125,"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":[3],"tags":[31,13160,18317,18315,85,697],"class_list":["post-90693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitpay","tag-payments","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90693","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=90693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90695,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90693\/revisions\/90695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}