News from 2017:

Microsoft today announced the latest Xbox incarnation, the Xbox BTC edition. In addition to providing seamless content delivery and an all-encompassing gaming experience, the BTC edition will include Bitcoin wallet functionality to make in-game micropurchases available to their users. Additionally, several ASIC mining chips have been included in the system to allow your Xbox BTC edition to search for coins to fund those very micropurchases.

Several Bitcoin mining insiders look at the strategy as "closing the loop", wherein users of the Xbox mine small amounts of BTC through mining, and then can send the coins directly to Microsoft for in-game virtual goods, content, and music / video access. It is expected that with over 300 million pre-orders for the Xbox BTC edition, this userbase will constitute nearly 40% of the total Bitcoin network hash, ensuring  decentralization of the network for years to come. This constant stream of micropayments to Microsoft are expected to make Microsoft the second largest holder of BTC known, behind of the massive immovable Satoshi Nakamoto hoard.

In other news, the intellectual property from the Mastercard bankruptcy was purchased for 0.134 BTC by a wealthy anonymous investor, who is said to have a stash which totals well over 7 BTC from mining on his GPU in 2012.