Greenpeace Combats Credit Card Fees by Accepting Bitcoin Donations
In the wake of 300,000 New York citizens marching the streets alongside 160 other countries against climate change, environmental activist group Greenpeace USA has now partnered with BitPay to begin accepting bitcoin donations. The United States branch is now set to become one the first major international charity organizations to accept bitcoin, making financial protest more available to those that wish to vote with the wallet. CCN. Some may know Greenpeace from the viral video protesting Lego's association with Shell. The stunning video features a Lego-arctic landscape drowning under a....
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Environmental campaign organization Greenpeace has announced it will start accepting bitcoin donations in its USA division via a partnership with payment processor BitPay. The move offers cost savings for the organisation, as well as the possibility of tapping into new sources of funds. Greenpeace does not accept donations from corporations or governments, instead, the nonprofit relies on individual donations. This practice comes with a drawback, however, since the cost of many, relatively small, transactions can easily add up. This largely because credit card companies and other....
Greenpeace, the ecological NGO, has stopped accepting bitcoin donations due to the big impact the cryptocurrency network has on the environment. The organization, which was one of the first NGOs to add bitcoin to its donations arsenal, has now backpedaled due to the growing energy consumption of the underlying network powering the asset. Greenpeace Stops Accepting Bitcoin Donations Greenpeace has stopped accepting bitcoin donations due to the big environmental impact that the energy consumption that the Bitcoin network is having. The NGO declared in an article earlier this week that they....
Completely independent organization Greenpeace announced today that it now accepts donations in bitcoin, becoming the latest charitable institution to adopt the digital currency into its operations. Greenpeace devotes its efforts to ensuring a "healthy planet for current and future generations." The organization states that it does not take money from corporations or government, and hence relies on individual donations, a fact that will surely be warmly accepted by the bitcoin community, which has largely libertarian roots. Their blog reads: "A majority of our support comes from individual....
Greenpeace, a non-governmental campaigning organisation focused on environmental issues, announced it would begin accepting bitcoin donations last month, becoming the latest not-for-profit group to embrace the digital currency. The move, which followed a similar announcement by United Way, is especially notable because Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments or corporations - it relies largely on small donations from the public. CoinDesk spoke with Greenpeace chief information officer Tom Camerlinck, who explained that there were many "practical things" that motivated the....
Some hot news this morning coming from a major activist group. Greenpeace USA has announced their United States-based operation will begin accepting bitcoin donations today, becoming one of the first major international charities to accept the digital currency. The organization has offices in forty countries, and operations on a budget exceeding $200 million annually. With a variety of focuses, Greenpeace aims to educate the public on issues like commercial whaling, deforestation, genetic engineering, and more. To make the acceptance happen, Greenpeace has partnered up with Atlanta-based....