Gabe Newell: Half of Bitcoin Transactions on Steam Were Fraudulent - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
Bitcoinगेब नेवेल: स्टीम पर आधे बिटकॉइन लेनदेन धोखाधड़ी वाले थे02 / 28 / 2022बिटकॉइन एथेरियम समाचार Half of all crypto transactions on PC gaming platform Steam were fraudulent before it removed Bitcoin as a payment option, according to Valve president Gabe Newell. को सम्बोधित करते हुए पीसी गेमर, Newell said that, “We had problems when we started accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment option. 50% of those transactions were fraudulent, which is a mind-boggling number. These were customers we didnt want to have.” He said that the crypto space is populated with actors that, “are not people you want interacting with your customers.” Steam introduced Bitcoin as a payment option in April 2016, but abandoned the experiment in December 2017, citing the cryptocurrencys price volatility and “a significant increase in the fees to process transactions on the Bitcoin network.” Newell told पीसी गेमर that Bitcoins price unpredictability made it “a complete nightmare” to use for transactions, as a game could cost $10 one day and $100 the next. के साथ एक अलग साक्षात्कार में Eurogamer, he noted that cryptocurrency volatility meant that customers “had no idea what price that they were actually paying,” adding that, “Yes, they were anchored to a cryptocurrency, but most peoples wages are