Microsoft confirmed to continue accepting bitcoin payments

Just two days after removing bitcoin for being too unstable, Microsoft suddenly announced it would continue to accept this crypto-payment method.

Since 2014, Microsoft has allowed users to add money to their Microsoft account as bitcoin. Since then, this giant technology firm has also stopped using this currency three times in 2015, 2016 and the last time it was last week.

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But on January 10, a Microsoft spokesman suddenly confirmed the company continued to accept payments for bitcoin transactions at its store system. Microsoft claims to ensure that the amount of bitcoins customers can use remains at the lowest level.

The use of bitcoin networks is becoming more and more difficult due to the skyrocketing fees and prolonged transaction wait times. Currently, this system can hardly handle more than 4 transactions per second.

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In order for the "digger" (which is the computer) to accept his transaction, bitcoin users can add a surcharge for each transaction. As transactions become more and more, this surcharge increases, forcing users to spend more money for each transaction or to wait a few hours or even a few days for the transaction to be passed.