Probably have something to do with UK law.
Newegg is headquartered in California, and California just declared bitcoin a legal currency.
Topic: Why are only the American versions of sites accepting BTC? - page 2. (Read 1510 times)
Regulation. No company is going to sell stuff that might turn out to be illegal. The U.S. has provided some direction for retailers. That would be my guess.
So when I heard about gyft, I thought 'yay' and bought a little item for my laptop, only when I checked out I discovered that on their UK site I couldn't use BTC. Same with newegg.
Why is this the case?
Why is this the case?
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