In what seems to be the big news (and more importantly, validation that bitcoin is being seen as currency among big businesses), Dell has recently announced that it is expanding its bitcoin payments option to all customers in the UK and Canada.
Company CIO Paul Walsh made the official announcement last week at eTail West (an annual commerce conference), and West cites customer enthusiasm for bitcoin payments as the “primary prompter” behind the company’s decision to expand its bitcoin payments program:
“We’re hearing from our customers around the world that they want the option to use bitcoin when buying Dell products, so we are excited to deliver bitcoin as a payment method on Dell.com to our customers in Canada and the UK.”
Dell has been accepting bitcoin since July of 2014, and joins the ranks of companies such as Overstock, Microsoft and Yahoo as one of the few tech conglomerates to welcome the digital currency with open arms.
Walsh also mentions that bitcoin’s popularity is at an all-time high, and while the current amount of bitcoin transactions has not yet been revealed, he explains that the company’s decision has been met with positive feedback from customers and enthusiasts alike:
“We are seeing purchases across our full product spectrum, from software and peripherals to our business PCs and even our largest transaction to date – north of $50,000 for a highly configured PowerEdge server system… We will offer bitcoin as long as our customers demand it – it is one method of payment available to them to make purchasing products and solutions from Dell easier and meet them on their terms.”
Dell’s estimated revenue earnings back in 2013 were $56.9 billion, making it the largest company to accept bitcoin after Microsoft.