Michael Dell announced on Twitter in July that his company would allow customers to purchase Dell products using Bitcoins, making the company one of the largest businesses to accept the digital currency.
A month later, Dell's CEO said on Twitter that the company had received an order for PowerEdge servers worth more than 85 Bitcoins, or about $50,000. There was no information on the customer who purchased the systems, but it is likely one of the largest orders Dell has received since it moved forward with accepting Bitcoins as a means of payment.
Dell representatives first announced their intentions with Bitcoin on July 18th through a variety of channels, from a tweet from Michael Dell to a blog post on a website dedicated to the initiative. The Bitcoin program is currently only offered in the United States and was initially aimed at consumers and small businesses. The company is partnering with Coinbase, a third-party payment processor that has been in operation for 2 years. It took Dell two weeks to close the deal with Coinbase.
