See bottom for tl;dr version.Since I've come to feel that old members of the SR community fall on the outskirts of who I consider "my own," I decided the incredibly small loss to myself from sharing this info is worth making sure all of you can make your own informed decision. Yes-yes, I'm aware I've only been around a few months, but the statement stands.Today Wordpress.com started accepting payments in BTC. Not only that, apparently their checkout page has the price in BTC next to the price in USD (I have not verified this, but it's what some article somewhere said). This means that a lot of people who pay money to Wordpress are going to stop and wonder, "wtf is that?" Some of those in turn will look it up. They don't even have to use it or really care. They'll know about it, some bring it up, "there's this crazy thing I saw..." -- you know how it goes. The initial exposure of people like me retweeting and reblogging and reposting adds to that; the comments for the initial wordpress release make that clear.Adoption of Bitcoin as a standard currency is where its long term value will come from -- if it doesn't fade into nothingness. But people are emotional and markets have spikes. There may be a big fucking spike in the next days or weeks. You may want to consider not checking out to dollars or euros or whatever the fuck they use where you happen to be, at least not for a week or so. Here's the bitcointalk.org thread if you're interested (clearnet of course): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124482.0tl;dr -- bitcoin price may skyrocket this month. I guarantee nothing.