TigerDirect processes $250,000 in Bitcoin Payments in first 17 hours

TigerDirect , a major online retailer, has started accepting Bitcoin as a payment option on their webshop with more then 200,000 products. They are the second Billion dollar company to accept the digital currency as a payment option, after Overstock.com was the first in January this year. TigerDirect processes about 2 Billion Dollars worth of orders each year. It has since then been 17 hours. So where are we now in terms of sales? An TigerDirect spokesperson told BitcoinBoard this morning the company has raked in a massive $250,000 USD worth of items in bitcoin payments since it started accepting the payment method 17 hours ago. The amount was spend in more then 1000 orders, and these are great numbers for the webstore. When Overstock.com started accepting Bitcoin, they reported that they got more then $124,000 in BTC payments in the first 24 hours of accepting it. Because...

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