Mozilla Foundation Now Accepting Bitcoin Donations

Mozilla Foundation Now Accepting Bitcoin Donations

Mozilla, the company behind the highly popular internet browser Firefox, recently started accepting bitcoins through Coinbase toward the Mozilla Foundation. The foundation and initiative look to help protect the open web, collecting donations for their cause. It's an interesting time to be witnessing the browser competition. While Google is taking a stance and working to bring internet connections to the entire world through balloons, Mozilla is working toward internet privacy and open technology. Each company maintains increasingly popular browsers but take it a step further for their....


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