Dell to sell computers to UK customers using Bitcoin currency
Dell is to let UK consumers buy its products using Bitcoin as currency having already trialled the method in the US.
The PC giant, which takes in approximately $60bn in annual sales, has revealed it will expand its Bitcoin payments programme to the UK and also Canada.
The news was revealed by the company’s chief information officer Paul Walsh at a major US e-commerce conference eTail West, in which he said the extension had been prompted by customer demand.
Dell has been accepting Bitcoin payments since last summer, after forming a tie-up with Bitcoin wallet provider CoinBase – making it the largest merchant to join the bitcoin ecosystem at the time.
Later in 2014 Microsoft also joined the cryptocurrency fray, working with BitPay to enable its users to use Bitcoin to buy digital goods and services across the computing giant’s product range.