WordPress was an early major platform to accept Bitcoin at $12
Matt Mullenweg · 933 Why Wordpress CEO Raised $300m, Replaced Himself, and New Gutenberg · Feb 12, 2018 · at 26:34
Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, discusses WordPress's early adoption of cryptocurrency payments with host Nathan Latka.
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“And WordPress, I think, was one of the first large Internet services to add support for accepting Bitcoin for our services. At the time, Bitcoin was about 12 dollars”
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