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Newegg Accepts Bitcoin

Major electronics retailer starts taking BTC via BitPay.

BTC Price
$640
Location
City of Industry, CA
Importance
72/100

Newegg, one of the largest online electronics retailers, began accepting Bitcoin through a partnership with BitPay. Because so much early mining hardware — GPUs, ASICs, and PSUs — was bought on Newegg, the move let miners spend the coins they earned right back into their rigs, making it one of the most fitting merchant integrations of the era.

Tags

#newegg#retail#bitpay

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