Bitcoin is going to be “in the news” tomorrow.

The Chicago Sun-Times, the ninth largest paper in the nation, is conducting a 24-hour experiment on Saturday: for the entire day, readers will be able to buy access to the site, or even just access to individual stories, via bitcoin. It’s an unusual undertaking for what Julian Posada, an executive vice president at the paper’s parent company, Wrapports, describes at the city’s “blue-collar” paper and its readership of average Joe’s, but these are unusual times.