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Too bad Bitcoin is a piss poor medium of exchange unless you're ransoming personal data or stealing pensions from old ladies.

Steam tried BTC and it didn't work.

Hell the whole reason why Steam got big is how FRICTIONLESS it made buying videogames.

Still people will go a long way for their porn fix so who knows?

It didn't work at the time at the time before the bans and before many improvements in crypto. It's a different landscape today. Maybe they'll retry.