[Feeble]

That's quite interesting, I wonder how they were fraudulent as bitcoin transactions dont have chargebacks etc. In the article they also mention that the price for the game would fluctuate which seems to indicate they actually priced the games in Bitcoin. Normally price would be Euro, USD etc and price conversion to Bitcoin would be done at check out. I guess these were the early days though =)

[udev4096]

2017 was definitely not early. Bitcoin gained a lot of traction since 2014

[npoc]

It is relative to 2025. And nowadays bitcoin has instant, cheap, private Lightning payments too.