Microsoft stops accepting Bitcoin in Windows Store

Back in November 2014 Microsoft announced that it had struck a deal with an outfit called Bitpay that would let it accept Bitcoin in the Windows Store. “For us, this is about giving people options and helping them do more on their devices and in the cloud,” Eric Lockard, corporate vice president of Universal Store at Microsoft said at the time. “The use of digital currencies such as bitcoin, while not yet mainstream...

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