Australian Church Opens Up to Bitcoin Donations
Image source: Facebook. The parishioners over at the Church of St. Paul's Ashgrove in Brisbane, Australia may no longer need a physical collection plate during service, because the church is now accepting bitcoin donations - in a move that sets out bitcoin can be used for good. Reverend Tiffany Sparks says they've already started accepting bitcoin donations as of New Year's Eve, but hints that they haven't quite been popular, given that the amount of individuals in Brisbane as a whole with bitcoin is rather minimal. Still, Rev. Sparks insists that the acceptance of the bitcoin is mostly....
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Reverend Tiffany Sparks. A recent article addressed to church leaders openly raises the question of accepting and promoting Bitcoin donations. A new step further for the adoption of Bitcoin by civil society? The Christian-oriented media Church Law & Tax just placed once again the Bitcoin debate on the table in the Christian community, following the publication of an article welcoming the decision of the American charity United Way Worldwide to accept bitcoin for its Innovation fund. "With a major charitable organization like the United Way accepting bitcoin, churches will quite possibly....