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Microsoft briefly stopped accepting bitcoin as a payment method last month but has since restored this option, while entertainment and gaming platform Steam announced in December that it would no longer support bitcoin payments due to high costs and unreliability.

One of the major announcement in the Bitcoin world came from an unlikely ally, as Neteller, a leading online payment processor, enabled the virtual currency as a payment method last year.

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Bitcoin's rising popularity in Indonesia has alarmed the country's central bank, which said last week it would ban it as a payment method next year.

Last year, Payments UK informed Education Business readers about the variety of different, alternate payment methods that were open to them, which could make life easier for parents and their children, as well as the schools themselves (Education Business 20.7).

The erotica genre as a whole came under attack in the last two weeks when PayPal ordered more than 2,000 titles that were deemed inappropriate to be removed from Smashwords» catalog of ebooks; failure to do so would result in the cancellation of Smashwords» PayPal account, rendering the ebook distribution site incapable of accepting payment for ebooks in its current method.

As Part of a SEPP Program For penalty - free distributions that are part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (SEPP) over the life of the IRA holder and or his or her beneficiary, the payments must last five years or until the IRA owner reaches age 59 1/2 — whichever is longer — and the calculation of the payment amounts must be done under certain IRS - approved methods.

After regulating digital currency exchanges in the country last year, the Japanese Diet has signed a landmark bill that will allow the use of digital currencies like bitcoin as a legal method of payment.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remain outlawed in Russia as a payment method, but draft legislation was introduced late last month that would legalize and regulate virtual currencies to curb illicit activity.

Last week, the Malta - licensed Pinnacle sent emails to its Euro account customers confirming that they could begin using the cryptocurrency as a method of payment via the Atlanta - based Bitpay payment processor.

Entertainment and gaming platform Steam announced in December last year that it would no longer support bitcoin as a payment method given the cryptocurrency's unreliable value and inherently high processing fees.

It seems other local service providers see value in bitcoin as well, with Swiss railway service SBB announcing last week it will soon accept the payment method.

This seems odd since Microsoft enabled PayPal as a payment method on the Xbox 360 late last year, and those transitioning from Symbian handsets are used to having the option to pay via their phone bill.

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The news marks the first time that regulators in Japan have issued a warning over a cryptocurrency services company since April last year, when the country legalized bitcoin as a payment method.