How Churches Are Starting to Evangelize About Bitcoin

How Churches Are Starting to Evangelize About Bitcoin

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....


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