Gamer456: I registered here to ask you to please add bitcoin as a payment option. I don't have a bank account, therefore I can't have a credit card, or use PayPal, or any other old payment services, because they are all based on banking and credit cards. Bitcoin would be the only possible way for me to pay you, and I would buy games worth several hundred dollars, if I only had a possibility to do it.

I am not alone - more than 2/3 of the world population are un-banked (have no access to banking services), but many of those people have access to the internet, and therefore, to bitcoin.

You can also accept payments from anywhere in the world, even from "high-risk" countries (countries from which credit card payments are usually not accepted, because of high fraud rate), because bitcoin transactions are irreversible, and therefore, fraud is impossible.

There is also a popular myth that if you accept bitcoin then you are exposed to bitcoin price fluctuations. That's not true, you can use a payment partner like Coinbase or Bitpay, and receive the exact amount of dollars to your bank account, that means, you can accept bitcoin without ever touching it or worrying about it, but at the same time reaping all bitcoin's benefits mentioned above (the ability to accept payments from literally any country in the world instantly and with zero risk of fraud).

You can read the review of accepting bitcoin for half a year at the Australian online shop for consumer electronics, Millennius (cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/02/05/amazing-results-retailer-australia-started-accepting-bitcoin-6-months-ago/). The most important part for you would probably be this - "Cryptocurrency has helped negotiate fraud down to zero percent, helping us safely expand our reach to a global audience."

Among tens of thousands of websites which accept bitcoin, probably the most famous and important is wordpress.com . They accept bitcoin for more than a year and a half now. You can visit their blog to read more about why they decided to accept bitcoin (en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/pay-another-way-bitcoin/). The most important quote is probably this - "PayPal alone blocks access from over 60 countries, and many credit card companies have similar restrictions. Some are blocked for political reasons, some because of higher fraud rates, and some for other financial reasons. Whatever the reason, we don’t think an individual blogger from Haiti, Ethiopia, or Kenya should have diminished access to the blogosphere because of payment issues they can’t control. Our goal is to enable people, not block them."

Please enable me to be your client. Thank you for consideration!

Gamer456: You are wrong my friend - bitcoin is an open source software (or, more accurately, an open source network protocol, like bittorrent), you, or anyone else, can go to (github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) and read each and every line of code, and see exactly what it does and how it works, you don't need so trust mine or anyone else's word on it. So how could it be a "fraud"?

This "fraud" as you call it, would enable me to send a payment to gog.com. If you know any other way, how I could send them a payment without having access to banking services, please tell me.

Gamer456: How would I put money into the card without banking services? I am a programmer and have been receiving my pay in bitcoin for about a year now. Would I be able to do the same in PaySafe currency?

Thank you for answers!

Gamer456: Sadly, the PaySafe card is available in only select countries, and not in the one I am at now (Belarus). It also does not include such huge countries as China and Russia. That's the main advantage of bitcoin, that it can be used without permission from anyone, if you have an internet connection - you can use it.

Gamer456: You are wrong too my friend - tens of thousand of stores accept it, a few of the most notable being:

wordpress.com
reddit.com
okcupid.com
zynga.com
tigerdirect.com
overstock.com
even porn.com...

...and many others.

I really don't understand the apparent skepticism and fear about this new technology. Bitcoin has been endorsed by such technology grands as Bill Gates (the creator of Microsoft) and Marc Andreesen (the creator of Netscape browser). Would that not make you at least study it, before so easily dismissing it as a "fraud"? (Although I still haven't got the answer how an open source network protocol can be a "fraud").

I would kindly suggest you to read these two articles about bitcoin, because most of the time people's skepticism comes from misinformation or ignorance about the subject.

dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/ ("Why Bitcoin Matters" By MARC ANDREESSEN).
thenextweb.com/insider/2014/02/15/bitcoin-platform-currency/ ("Bitcoin: It’s the platform, not the currency, stupid!" By Sander Duivestein and Patrick Savalle).

If you change your mind, and want to help your potential customers reach you, instead of turning them away in a patronizing manner so quickly, I will still be glad to become one. :) Good luck!