Amazon-Owned Twitch Quietly Brings Back ₿itcoin Payments

Amazon-Owned Twitch Quietly Brings Back ₿itcoin Payments

Amazon-owned, leading game streaming platform Twitch has enabled ₿itcoin (BTC) and ₿itcoin cash (BCH) payments again, Cointelegraph Brazil reports on June 25.

As Cointelegraph reported at the time, in March Twitch quietly removed ₿itcoin and ₿itcoin cash as payment options for subscriptions by removing Bitpay as a payment method. Per the report, Bitpay has been enabled again as a payment processor on the platform.

Bitcoin and ₿itcoin cash can be found as payment options in the section dedicated to the less common payment methods of the subscription payment page. The renewed enabling of those coins as payment options has not been announced on the company’s blog or in a press release.

Bitcoin — after trading sideways in the $3,000-$4,000 range for the first months of the year — has recently rallied and broke $13,000 yesterday. As of press time, ₿itcoin is down 5.47% on the day and up nearly 32% on the week.

Earlier today news broke that BitMEX, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, saw record volumes across its operations as ₿itcoin hit $13,000.

As Cointelegraph reported yesterday, also San Francisco-based payments company Square has just made ₿itcoin deposits available on its popular Cash App platform.

Published at Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:29:00 +0000