{"id":158435,"date":"2016-03-14T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T07:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=158435"},"modified":"2016-03-15T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T09:15:16","slug":"microsoft-drops-bitcoin-as-a-payment-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/158435-microsoft-drops-bitcoin-as-a-payment-method.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft drops bitcoin as a payment method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:\u00a0Microsoft has stated it will <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/windows-10-store-will-continue-to-support-bitcoin-official-statement-501722.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">continue to support bitcoin<\/a><\/strong>, and that its\u00a0recent statement regarding the digital currency was inaccurate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe continue to support Bitcoin for adding money to your Microsoft Account which can be used for purchasing content in the Windows and Xbox stores.<\/p>\n<p>We apologize for inaccurate information that was inadvertently posted to a Microsoft site, which is currently being corrected.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Original article<\/strong>: Microsoft no longer accepts bitcoin as a payment method in its store on Windows 10 devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-10\/microsoft-store-doesnt-accept-bitcoin?tduid=(4548e6bb8c4497e8b8e95d3747b47db8)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-DtQiN2soiJ2Juugd4LVMOg)()\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The company said<\/strong><\/a> users can no longer redeem Bitcoin into their\u00a0Microsoft account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Existing balances in your account will still be available for purchases from Microsoft Store, but can&#8217;t be refunded,&#8221; said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/03\/13\/microsoft-store-stops-taking-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a> stated that Microsoft has not explained the reasons behind the decision, and whether it will affect the company&#8217;s other platforms &#8211; such as\u00a0Xbox.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on bitcoin<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/158031-bidorbuy-adds-bitcoin-as-a-payment-method.html\">Bidorbuy adds bitcoin as a payment method<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/157571-bitcoin-faces-make-or-break-2016-vinny-lingham.html\">Bitcoin faces make-or-break 2016: Vinny Lingham<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft no longer accepts bitcoin as a payment method in its store on Windows 10 devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":95299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106,16],"tags":[36,187,123,26970],"class_list":["post-158435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-software","tag-active","tag-bitcoin","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158451,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158435\/revisions\/158451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}