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Wordpress Now Accepts Bitcoin to Support Internet Freedom

Bitcoin has been around for a few years now, and while you can’t really mine for it anymore, it’s hung on as the Internet’s favorite untraceable currency. That untraceability is key to its popularity on the dark web, which in turn has led to bitcoin’s reputation as being good for little more than drugs and beef jerky, despite its viability as actual currency . But over the weekend it got one high-profile backer that might help assuage bitcoin’s image problem: Wordpress, which now accepts bitcoin in exchange for its range of blogging services. Wordpress started accepting bitcoin for a reason that bitcoin advocates will surely be happy about: It’s the only method of exchanging currency online that is totally from political restriction. According to a post on the Wordpress blog , At WordPress.com, our mission is making publishing democratic — accessible and easy for anyone, a...

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