Valve boss Gabe Newell on Bitcoin, Mario, and restaurants

Valve is a very secretive video game company, but its boss is currently opening up in an online question-and-answer forum.

Gabe Newell, the chief executive officer of Valve Software, is answering community questions in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session right now. The founder of the Half-Life developer and creator of the Steam digital-distribution service is notorious for not saying much, but he’s already answered a number of questions including whether Steam, which is responsible for nearly three out of every four PC games sold in the U.S., will accept Bitcoin. This would give the crypto-currency access to one of the biggest players in the multibillion-dollar gaming industry … but it also looks like it isn’t going to happen any time soon.