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by brucethemoose2 1063 days ago
Read Valve's take:

https://www.pcgamer.com/50-of-transactions-were-fraudulent-w...

And remember, this was during peak crypto, before most of the meltdowns. From a large, mature purely online business selling purely digital products with a tremendous amount of fraud experience.

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Was it possible to purchase gift cards using Bitcoin? If so, this could potentially attract a significant number of fraudulent activities.
I don't think so.

You can buy games as a gift for someone else, but Valve has placed more restrictions around this over the years.