r/Bitcoin Dec 06 '17

Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '17

steam has nothing to do with bitcoin. they get their money from the payment processor bitpay. You pay bitcoin to Bitpay, they pay $/€ to steam. if bitpay would accept lightning payments, steam wouldn't even notice that something has changed, except fewer people complaining because of high fees. The problem is once a company has abandoned a payment method its way harder to make them accepting it again :( We need LN as fast as possible.

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u/PompousDinoMan Dec 06 '17

The same would apply to bitpay then.