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If digital payments are becoming a service problem, Steam might develop their own.
I wonder if this will just make them return bitcoin as an option to pay. It's been 8 years since they dropped it and it has fewer large fluctuations now, it seems.
It still fluctuates a lot. If they were going to accept bitcoin I as a game developer would want them to get it into something a bit harder almost instantly. I don't want it staying in bitcoin here it can lose its value, for no reason at all, at the drop of a hat. Under the current system steam tend to hold on to money until the end of the month and then pay you, that wouldn't work with bitcoin.
Bitcoin cash maybe as it's not limited to a small block size, but as others have said, there are probably better options out there now.
BCH has been dead for years (even if it doesn't know if yet)