Social Media Frontiers: Wordpress Now Accept Bitcoin Payment

Social Media Frontiers: Wordpress Now Accept Bitcoin Payment

Home to 57 million blogs worldwide, Wordpress are the latest company to begin utilising the digital currency, Bitcoin . As a way of paying for features on their site such as blog upgrades and custom designs, Bitcoin can help those unable to use other payment options. Wordpress.com is a free blogging service built on Wordpress’ open source software. The currency will provide a payment option in places and countries where more mainstream methods of payment may not be available. A news release from Wordpress.com said that due to many reasons, a lot of users have restricted access to all of the site’s features. “We don’t think an individual blogger from Haiti, Ethiopia, or Kenya should have diminished access to the blogosphere because of payment issues they can’t control. Our goal is to enable people, not block them.” “Bitcoin is a digital currency that enables instant payment...

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