Buy your PC Parts with Bitcoin? It’s now Accepted by Tiger Direct

Updated: January 25, 2014

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Buy your PC Parts with Bitcoin?

We recently reported that iBuyPower is now selling coin mining PCs and now Bitcoin users will be happy to hear that TigerDirect is now accepting bitcoins as payment on their US website. While this is currently limited to just the US version of the website, international orders placed through it will still be accepted.

TigerDirect has also made the usage of Bitcoin on the website a bit restrictive, including no refunds, no gift card purchases, and the warning that they may change their policy on virtual currency at a moment’s notice.

In other words this is all very much a sort of trial phase to see just how much business TigerDirect can gain and whether or not it’s worth making bitcoins a regularly accepted form of payment. So what do you guys think about this move? Are you happy to see Bitcoin becoming more mainstream? Let us know in the comments below and thanks for reading here at Tech of Tomorrow!

Source: TigerDirect

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Dani Filth

Don’t understand the purpose of mining coins. I was gonna mine coins but i been searching for 3 weeks whats it for and i find nothing all i see guides on how to make money
- Tomas Cabral
  
  Same here.. I understand it’s easy to get something ilegal than something “legal”…
  I see a nice move here!
  - CncmasterW
    
    but its not ilegal…
    - Tomas Cabral
      
      What I meant is that common belief that it’s easier to get drugs and weapons with bitcoins and really, really hard to make money or purchase goods. So this is a nice move from TigerDirect
- CncmasterW
  
  The purpose is to trade. Like for example…
  
  Trading cards. They have value.. they only get value depending certain circumstances. So now instead of using money.. I generated a few coins with nothing but my computer and you are willing to take one coin for say a flash drive. The people create the worth.. The miners create the amount, also benifiting from selling the coin for $.
  
  its a way for people to not have to give out $ for a exchange. other then that.. its basically just another empty shell of nothingness. like PAPER BILLS… < completely worthless… other then the number printed on them.
  - Dani Filth
    
    I understand all that part but what i don’t understand is solving math problems decrypting something to earn hash bit coin or what ever it is. That’s the part im wondering lol when your using so much electricity to solve something but what’s it solving?
    - CncmasterW
      
      its solving math equations that needs a network of computers. ever hear of Folding @ home? google it, might help you understand what i mean. —- but anyway In return you gain part of a bitcoin. Technically a bitcoin is 50. then they halved the pay out.. to 25 with pools they created the 1BC
Eric

Mining is easy but its the horsepower of the pc that matters