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Title: 2012-11-16 theregister.co.uk - Wordpress to accept Bitcoin without confirmations Post by: julz on November 16, 2012, 04:18:40 AM Quote Wordpress to accept Bitcoin without confirmations Blog platform says there's low risk in unapproved transactions Simon Sharwood 2012-11-16 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/16/wordpress_to_accept_bitcoin/?utm_source=the+Register&utm_medium=twitter Automattic, the company behind blogging platform WordPress.com ,has decided it will accept payment for some services through Bitcoin, the controversial open source currency. ... Intriguingly, the company will offer Bitcoin payments without waiting for 'confirmations', a method Bitcoin uses to verify transactions that relies on other participants in the Bitcoin network recording the transaction and passing news of it to other participants. ... |