TigerDirect announced yesterday in a press release that they have started to accept Bitcoin for over 200,000 products on their online store.
The announcement comes on the heals of Overstock.com's move to accept Bitcoin earlier this month. With the success that Overstock has witnessed with Bitcoin, and now with TigerDirect coming onboard, it is highly likely we will see a score of other major retailers adopting Bitcoin in the vary near future.
TigerDirect is the first major US electronics retailer and largest company to date to accept the digital currency Bitcoin via BitPay.
Steven Leeds, Director of Corporate Marketing at TigerDirect, is quoted in the announcement stating “With individuals building their own high-powered PCs with parts offered on our site to mine Bitcoins, it’s a logical fit.”
It is true that TigerDirect does carry a wide variety of AMD based GPU's, as well as PCI-e heavy motherboards that are well suited for building scrypt mining rigs for altcoins such as Litecoin, but it is a stretch to believe Mr. Leeds and his fellow executives at TigerDirect are under the impression that Bitcoin miners are still building GPU based miners. That said, they do list Butterfly Labs products as "coming soon" on a page of their site dedicated to educating their customers about Bitcoin, you can see it here.
If you are interested in mining Bitcoin and can not wait for Butterfly Labs to deliver product to TigerDirect, you can always purchase hosted GH at CEX.IO for Bitcoin.
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