Earlier this week we looked at various tech merchants accepting payment in Bitcoin for products and services. Perhaps another large area of focus for Bitcoin acceptance is the online gaming space. Players can not only sign up for online games through payment in Bitcoin but additional purchase of virtual tokens, weapons, and gear for a variety of computer games.



Some do “pay their way through” online games and Bitcoin is a secure tool and way to do so. Through adding a bitcoin payment option, online gaming sites can not only increase sales, but users tend to make higher ticket price purchase of gaming supplies. These virtual marketplaces allow users to purchase gaming weapons and gears; they otherwise would have needed to earn through getting to different levels in the games.

One of the most recent computer games to embrace Bitcoin is Wargaming.net. Wargaming.net offers an option for players to purchase in-game virtual gold with Bitcoin, enabling players to purchase a competitive edge when playing the game. With virtual gold, users can purchase tanks, planes and ships.

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Pioneering Bitcoin for gaming virtual marketplaces, OPskins began accepting payment in Bitcoin through BitPay back in October of 2015 and shortly after also initiated payouts in Bitcoin to customers. OPskins alone payouts out 40,000 USD worth in Bitcoin daily to sellers in their marketplace.

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According to CoinJournal, here are some of the best sites to buy computer games with Bitcoin:

Let’s not forget about PayPal and Microsoft. In September of 2014, PayPal partnered with BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin to enable merchants to accept payment in Bitcoin for digital goods including online games and songs. In December of 2014, Microsoft launched a Bitcoin payment option for customers to fund their XBox Live and Microsoft/Windows Live accounts.

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