Feels like yet another step in a light direction.
At WordPress.com, our mission is making publishing democratic — accessible and easy for anyone, anywhere. And while anyone can start a free blog here, not everyone can access upgrades (like going ad-free or enabling custom design) because of limits on traditional payment networks.
Today, that changes: you can now buy WordPress.com upgrades with bitcoins.
PayPal alone blocks access from over 60 countries, and many credit card companies have similar restrictions. Some are blocked for political reasons, some because of higher fraud rates, and some for other financial reasons. Whatever the reason, 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 payments over the internet. Unlike credit cards and PayPal, Bitcoin has no central authority and…
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leslee hare 
…Bit by Bit…
Heheh! :)
Hi!…I followed the Bitcoin “thread” to further understand it…alas, it became too conceptual for me to grasp…Whatever happened to PictoGrams!? lol
I’m with you on that, Babajij! Sounds good, but it’s a LOT of words! (I had two indications this week of how “words” can short-circuit genuine communication…) I read a bit, and noted the enthusiasm in the comments, caught myself thinking, wow, this could be a clever conspiracy of some kind… Then decided that the intent in itself seemed worthwhile enough to post. :) I do love the intent of empowering individuals and increasing accessibility!