Tech large Microsoft appears to be contemplating introducing Bitcoin (BTC) funds at its Xbox gaming console on-line retailer.In accordance with a M
Tech large Microsoft appears to be contemplating introducing Bitcoin (BTC) funds at its Xbox gaming console on-line retailer.
In accordance with a March 21 Reddit publish on r/XboxSeriesX, Microsoft has put out a survey asking Xbox customers about their most well-liked fee choices at its on-line retailer.
“Which of those different fee strategies would you want to make use of on Xbox?,” the purported survey asks, itemizing Bitcoin as one of many potential fee strategies. The identical picture has additionally been circulating throughout a number of different subreddits together with r/ethtrader and r/Bitcoin.
Microsoft is now asking Xbox customers about #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/TjuY18L5Wh
— Documenting Bitcoin (@DocumentingBTC) March 21, 2021
One Xbox person stated that the survey is obtainable “if you happen to take part within the Xbox Insider program for beta testing OS updates.”
Microsoft didn’t instantly reply to Cointelegraph’s request for remark.
Again in 2014, Microsoft began accepting Bitcoin to fund Microsoft accounts, permitting United States-based customers to buy content material from Home windows, together with Xbox video games. After briefly halting the fee choice, Microsoft resumed Bitcoin funds for its MS Retailer in January. Cryptocurrency-based funds usually are not at the moment supported on the Xbox on-line retailer.
Whereas it might be open to accepting Bitcoin as fee, Microsoft has no plans to make a much bigger transfer into crypto like Tesla. President Brad Smith stated that the agency didn’t have any cryptocurrency diversification plans following Tesla’s $1.5 billion funding in Bitcoin.