Zynga Links Up With Bitpay For a Bitcoin Payment Test in Web Games

[spectrum]

Here is a video demonstration of the in-game purchase using the Kryptokit extension [1] in Google Chrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmN7UtXFRIU

Really shows the simplicity and speed which is great for these type of microtransactions.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kryptokit/lhhiping...

[dreen]

The article seems to conclude this is mostly a PR move, which I find plausible. I can't really imagine that an average Zynga customer would want to use bitcoin.

This is good news though, hopefully people will stop going bananas about the value of a bitcoin so using it as a payment platform becomes a viable option for everyone.

[joezydeco]

I can't really imagine that an average Zynga customer would want to use bitcoin.

How about once Zynga ramps up the slot machine stuff? Now there's a way to cash in and out.

[XorNot]

The Bitcoin network split and tanked when it exceeded, what, 500k transactions an hour?

[untilHellbanned]

I wonder why Zynga chose Bitpay over Coinbase. Anyone know?

[gigavps]

Probably because Bitpay does one thing and does it better than anyone else.