from Hacker News

RFC: Stop Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations

by abbe98 on 2/9/22, 11:41 AM with 11 comments

  • by janandonly on 2/9/22, 12:04 PM

    From the article

    > In the last financial year the most used cryptocurrency was Bitcoin. We have never held cryptocurrency, and spot-convert donations daily into fiat currency (USD), which doesn’t have a significant environmental impact.

    Every Proof-of-Work system consumes energy, whether you make transactions on them or not (a graveyard of barely used POW blockchain systems that are all still being mined prove this).

    So really, this is just symbolism politics...

  • by matheusmoreira on 2/9/22, 11:52 AM

    Stop donating to Wikipedia altogether. Its future is not in any way in jeopardy and donations don't seem to be doing much.

  • by rvz on 2/9/22, 12:08 PM

    > The Wikimedia Foundation currently accepts cryptocurrency donations in currencies including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum, as explained on the "Other ways to give" page. I propose that we stop accepting cryptocurrency donations.

    Here we go again with Bitcoin, PoW === All cryptocurrencies.

    So all cryptocurrencies are Proof-of-Work and non-Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies don't exist today? Perhaps XRP, Nano, Stellar, Solana, Algorand, and Hedera are all destroying the environment and are slow for payments?

    I mean I don't even like the hype around cryptocurrencies, but the main reasons presented by this RFC for not using them are quite weak and completely outdated. Yawn.