Gaming giant G2A now accepts Bitcoin through partnership with BitPay
G2A. COM the world’s fastest growing digital gaming marketplace, invested more than 20 million Euros in research and development over the past two years to ensure secure and guaranteed online initiatives, with 6 million unique users and more than 5 million transactions worldwide in 2014. G2A has, to date, had over 700 thousand average monthly transactions in 2015.
G2A CEO, Bartosz Skwarczek confirmed today that G2A will be accepting bitcoin payments on their G2A.COM Marketplace. G2A has partnered with the leading enterprise payment processor, BitPay to process their bitcoin transactions.
G2A is one of the leaders in digital gaming marketplaces. It provides a safe and efficient way to make transactions for digital products like games, software activation licenses for Steam, Xbox Live cards, PSN codes and time-cards for online games. G2A.COM serves more than 4.000.000 new customers per year recording more than 10 million transaction per year worldwide.
Executive VP of Global Payments at G2A.COM, Bob Voermans, said that G2A.COM is delighted to confirm BitPay as a trusted partner. BitPay are now a part of the proposition offered by G2APAY. By adding bitcoin, buyers and sellers at G2A can now benefit from another great global payment method. Bob concluded: ‘In my estimation this partnership will increase growth for sellers due to the fact that customers will buy more often on the G2A.COM Marketplace.
BitPay, the world’s leading bitcoin processor, is trusted by many enterprises such as Microsoft, Adyen and Neteller. It allows merchants to accept bitcoin payments from consumers, while pricing their products and receiving settlement in their local currency. By accepting bitcoin, merchants can accept payment from anyone, anywhere in the world at a low cost and with no chargeback risk.
“We are delighted to partner with G2A which will help us scale bitcoin payments to a broad gaming audience,” said Marcel Roelants, General Manager BitPay EMEA. “By their nature, digital goods like games, are borderless. Using bitcoin as a global payment method will complement the online experience.”
About G2A
G2A is a trusted & certified global digital marketplace developed by professionals in diverse fields including gaming, management, finance, public relations and marketing. Every day G2A works hard towards creating the most outstanding digital platform for all video game enthusiasts. G2A is in the top two most popular organic keywords searches in the world in Gaming – Similarweb Search Marketing Benchmark Report 2015, currently more than 67 million desk top visits. It has over 6 million unique users, and had more than 5 million transactions worldwide in 2014.
