No Bitcoin: Mozilla will only accept Proof of Stake crypto donations
The company has decided to begin accepting PoS crypto again after an outcry against Bitcoin forced it to suspend such donations earlier this year. The company behind the Firefox internet browser Mozilla is attempting to appease its environmentally-conscious community by accepting only Proof-of-Stake (PoS) crypto donations.The company initially halted all crypto donations in January, but has now opened them back up after a review period to assess community sentiments and to conduct research on crypto energy usage.An update to our policy on accepting cryptocurrency donations. We got it....
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During the first week of January, the software community Mozilla revealed it was pausing cryptocurrency donations after citing environmental concerns. 14 weeks later, Mozilla decided last week it will accept crypto donations again, but only from digital assets that leverage a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus model.
Mozilla Plans to Accept PoS Crypto Assets Only, Executive Says PoW Cryptos ‘Significantly Increase Our GHG Footprint’
On April 7, Mark Surman, the executive director at the Mozilla Foundation, published an update about the software community pausing crypto....
Mozilla, the team behind the well-known Firefox browser, recently announced that it was including Bitcoin as one of the many ways people can choose to support the organization. Mozilla is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting openness, accessibility, and innovation on the Web. It seems that a lot of Mozilla supporters demanded the ability to donate using bitcoin; Mozilla added a bitcoin payment button to its primary donations form after receiving numerous requests from donors. With this move, Mozilla has joined a growing number of merchants and organizations that accept bitcoin,....
Mozilla, the open-source development community behind the popular Firefox web browser, is now accepting bitcoin donations. The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit entity that provides support for the community's broad open-source development, will be partnering with Coinbase to accept bitcoin contributions. The California-based bitcoin services provider announced the deal on its blog, where it reinforced that, per its policies toward charities, it will not charge fees for the donations it processes. With the news, Mozilla joins the growing number of non-profit organizations that support....
“Everyone involved in the project should be witheringly ashamed of this decision to partner with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters,” said Mozilla co-founder Jamie Zawinski. The Mozilla Foundation has put cryptocurrency donations on hold following a community backlash sparked by trenchant criticism from co-founder Jamie Zawinski.Last week the development company behind the Firefox browser tweeted an appeal for donations in cryptocurrency.But earlier today, Mozilla announced it had paused crypto donations due to the online discussion around crypto’s environmental impact. Last week, we....
According to a study conducted by Mozilla, the addition of a bitcoin option dragged the value of online donations collected through its Firefox browser. Due to popular demand, the company has recently added a bitcoin payment button to its primary donations form but it seems to have had a negative impact. Mozilla released data collected from a statistical study on the impact of adding a bitcoin button on the main campaign donation page and revealed that it may have distracted visitors and even reduced donations from non-bitcoin donors. Bitcoin and Donations. For other companies and....