Since 2014, Microsoft has accepted bitcoin as a payment medium for the purchase of applications, games and other digital content from Windows, Xbox Games, Xbox Music or Xbox Video Stores.
However, Microsoft has recently decided to stop accepting payments by bitcoin on the grounds that the currency is too unstable.
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Its a really bad new, Im a fan of Microsoft and I always use Bitcoin to buy games from it(
According to coindesk, Microsoft has already resumed the Bitcoin payment as an option, so don't worry:However, Microsoft has recently decided to stop accepting payments by bitcoin on the grounds that the currency is too unstable.
((Its a really bad new, Im a fan of Microsoft and I always use Bitcoin to buy games from it
(https://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-resumes-bitcoin-payments-after-halt-over-instability/
At the end of last year, the mempool was full and fees were sky high, but it has been normalized already, fortunately. These kind of problems will be solved by the Lightning network in some time and if everything will work as expected, more and more merchants will accept bitcoin in the future.
I think he might have followed one social media that is late with updates.
This answers it all.
They have resumed it and I think I have seen it somewhere here with that update.
For the OP you might want to change the news that you are following or you are going to be late with the recent updates about cryptos.