Accept Bitcoin as payment method again - theres no reason not to and there was no reason to remove it in first place

[Customer Care Specialist]

They can use Bitpay (and i think they did that before aswell), and they couldnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about crashing or increasing Btc price because they would get paid in Dollar from Bitpay to bank account.

This is literally taken from Bitpays site:

"Receive funds directly to your bank account with zero price volatility or risk."

"Bank deposits in 38 countries, settled in US Dollars, Euros, GBP, and more."

Its a missed opportunity to appeal to people who value their privacy like me to encourage them to spend more money on Steam, or just prefer Btc to pay for stuff or just dont have other payment methods available.

Its annoying to having to create a new Paypal with fake info for each time i want to buy a game or Steam wallet, then finding someone who exchanges BTC for Paypal, having the risk of getting limited and losing the money completely to Paypal.

OR trying to find someone to sell me Steam wallet codes (at premium!!) for Btc...

I skipped many purchases I would have else made if Steam would take Bitcoin directly, because it just is too much hassle, especially if its spontaneous.

[Customer Care Specialist]

Count_Dandyman の投稿を引用：

BELUGA の投稿を引用：

Read the damn post, i fking said that Bitpay pays out to bank accounts and takes all the risk of price drops on THEM, thats literally their main benefit.
So Valve itself wouldnt have to deal with any Btc or price changes or anything like that themselves, AGAIN, THEY WOULD BE PAID WITH BANK TRANSFER.

There is no risk or downside to Valve AT ALL, only benefit.

If there is no risk or downside why don't you use that to turn your bitcoins into cash and buy wallet cards to redeem?

the reason i even use Btc is BECAUSE I VALUE MY PRIVACY.

I do not own a credit card, I do not own a Paypal account with my real name on it - i do only own a bank account for formal reasons, i never really used it for much.

And buying steam wallet cards with Btc isnt as convenient as would be just being able to buy wallet on Steam directly, and often i have to pay a premium price.

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BELUGA の投稿を引用：

the reason i even use Btc is BECAUSE I VALUE MY PRIVACY.

Buy physical wallet cards.

Problem solved.

[cinedine]

BELUGA の投稿を引用：

And no price fluctuations is not a reason since again, Bitpay takes that on them.

They gave a perfectly valid reason.
Bitpay had realtime conversion and in between sending the transaction and verifying it on their end, the conversion rate shifted and lead to failed transactions and the customer having to pay more.
For one that is a pretty sketchy move when you have to pay more than you were shown at checkout. Close to illegal.

But the more important reason: customers won't hate on Bitpay, but on Steam and thus lower trust in the platform and reduce customer satisfaction.

[mimizukari]

it doesn't matter what they receive, The currency is too volatile and often times you'd have to pay a tax worth more than what you're buying in the first place, ti's not consumer friendly and bitcoin should just be forgotten about... Cool concept, horrible execution.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Bitcoin was accepted, they wanted to test it out, basically testing the waters.

Bitcoin became unstable, it was blowing up, along with the cost of fees blowing up as well. Steam made the right call as there would been a problem, it blew up to almost 20k, then fell pretty hard shortly after, and still struggle to remain stable after the one year to this day, even after the fees went down.

I don't think Steam will be adding this any time soon. Especially hearing how billions of dollars went down, the rise of ICO scams, and how stock exchange getting hacked, and most recently one of the stock exchange ceo also the only person that has the key, just costed everyone that put their Bitcoin on that exchange to be forever lost which was over $240 million.

Also it's completely up to Steam if they want to allow Bitcoin, or not.