Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales to Discuss Bitcoin Acceptance with Board Members
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, plans to discuss with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Directors the possibility of the famous Internet encyclopaedia accepting bitcoin. Wales has been experimenting with digital currency, recently setting up a bitcoin wallet with Coinbase and posting his wallet address on Twitter. This is my bitcoin address: 1McNsCTN26zkBSHs9fsgUHHy8u5S1PY5q3 @Kosmatos. - Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) March 6, 2014. Blockchain shows that, since Thursday (6th March), the wallet address has received around 5 BTC, which is currently worth around $3,104. Wales said he will....
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A brief correspondence on Twitter between a man and Chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation Jimmy Wales revealed that the organization that cares for the Wikipedia only encyclopedia is "cautious" about accepting bitcoin. No specific reasons were provided, though it should be noted that according to Wales, "Staff are looking into lightweight implementation and will make recommendation to [the] board". @mrschtief Staff are looking into lightweight implementation and will make recommendation to board as I understand it. We are cautious. - Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) April 11, 2014. This isn't....
Jimmy Wales Source: Twitter. Wikimedia President Jimmy Wales is excited to discover the world of bitcoin, and while doing so, he's accidentally started a bitcoin donation campaign by simply sharing his bitcoin address on social media. At the time of this writing, Wales' bitcoin address has received over 10 BTC from members of the community, translating to over $6,000 USD and counting. That's certainly a difference from the 0.1 BTC Wales started off with this weekend, and it's all going to a good cause: Wikipedia. The bitcoin community is cleverly using this as an opportunity to nudge....
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, said in a Twitter conversation that Wikimedia, the non-profit foundation that operates the site, was "cautious" about the Internet encyclopaedia accepting bitcoin donations. When Twitter user 'Mister Schief' asked Wales for an update on Wikimedia Foundation accepting bitcoin donations, Wales responded by saying that staff were looking into a lightweight implementation: @mrschtief Staff are looking into lightweight implementation and will make recommendation to board as I understand it. We are cautious. :). - Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) April 11,....
Jimmy Wales Source: Twitter. Who's the latest notable person int he techsphere to start playing around with bitcoin? Jimmy Wales, President of Wikia, or better known as the co-founder of Wikipedia. Wales announced on Sunday evening via Twitter that he has just gotten started with the digital currency: "Playing with BTC today: I just bought 0.1 bitcoin with @Coinbase!" he wrote. He's since followed up his tweets with his bitcoin address, and has even taken to the Bitcoin page at Reddit.com to answer community questions. So I set up a personal account at Coinbase to play around with bitcoin.....
Spencer Rascoff, CEO of online real estate database Zillow, has announced to his 20,290 Twitter followers that he is coming round to the idea of bitcoin. The entrepreneur indicated yesterday that he was gearing up to embrace digital currencies. Thx to @brian_armstrong for the @coinbase tutorial. I'm reconsidering my skepticism on Bitcoin. cc @SaraEisen. - Spencer Rascoff (@spencerrascoff) March 10, 2014. A tweet today from the Harvard graduate confirmed he had taken the plunge and invested in some bitcoins: Bought some bitcoin this morning. Buckle up. - Spencer Rascoff (@spencerrascoff)....