Microsoft now accepts Bitcoin as payment for games, apps, music and movies on Windows Phone and other devices, the Reddit resource reports.
The option is currently available only in the USA. With Bitcoin, you will be able to purchase digital goods – games or applications. It is not yet possible to buy, for example, Office with virtual currency. You will not be able to return what you bought – Microsoft does not issue refunds in digital currency yet.
The ability to pay with digital currency appeared in the Microsoft payment system without too much noise – the corporation did not make any official statements about this.
Resource Quartz.com He believes that innovations are the merit of the new CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, and the course of development that he set for the corporation.
Let’s add that neither Apple, nor Google, nor even Amazon can boast of such novelties in the field of payment systems yet.
By the way, the Bitcoin exchange rate against the dollar is falling – one unit of digital currency as of December 17 costs $ 332, while in early November it cost $ 389.
From left to right: the dynamics of the Bitcoin exchange rate over the past 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, 6 months according to the data of the BTC-E exchange (BTC/USD) and the resource Bitcoinity.orgOther materials on the topic:
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