If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it

Re:If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, clo... by Sir_Substance on Sunday April 30, 2017 @09:09AM (#14231345)

You should definitely try steams bitcoin integration before you dismiss the possibility. Grab a bitcoin wallet on your phone, go buy $5 worth of bitcoin, and then use that $5 of bitcoin to buy $5 of steam credit.

It's a considerably smoother user flow than using a credit card, and it's just as fast. I think you'll be surprised and impressed.

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Re:If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, clo... by efournie on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:49AM (#14245905)

First, given the track record of manufacturers with android security updates, I wouldn't install a bitcoin wallet on my phone.

Then, there is the problem with "buy $5 worth of bitcoin". Last time I checked, this was everything but trivial, at least here in Europe.

And finally, the last purchase I made with bitcoins on steam took more than 12 hours to get validated. I used the standard bitcoin fee of the bitcoin-qt client but it seems to be far from enough nowadays.

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Re:If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, clo... by Sir_Substance on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @05:19AM (#14254137)

>And finally, the last purchase I made with bitcoins on steam took more than 12 hours to get validated. I used the standard bitcoin fee of the bitcoin-qt client but it seems to be far from enough nowadays.

So you know what the problem is, but you pretend that it's not your problem. If you use any modern bitcoin wallet, android or not, it'll automatically append a reasonable fee, and validate in about 2 seconds.

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