WordPress Now Accepts Bitcoin: Bitcoin payments will extend WordPress services to countries formerly shuttered b...

WordPress Now Accepts Bitcoin

WordPress Now Accepts Bitcoin: Bitcoin payments will extend WordPress services to countries formerly shuttered b...

For the last year, Bitcoin has been kind of like the kid who moves to a new town right in the middle of high school. Sitting alone at lunch. Quiet, but proud. Widely suspected of dealing drugs. He doesn't have any friends and he's not sure he wants them. Well, that's all over, because this week Bitcoin started hanging out with one of the most popular kids in school. WordPress, the most widely used blogging platform on the Internet, announced last night that it now accepts Bitcoin payments. (The basic platform is free, but it charges for a number of add-on services.) This is the most high-profile company to link up with Bitcoin since the cryptocurrency went online in 2009 and quite possibly the biggest boost to its reputation as well. In his announcement Andy Skelton, a developer for WordPress, explained the company's decision as an effort to further democratize blogging. H...

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