Kentucky Church Now Accepting Bitcoin
According to Tim Totten, the chair of the finance team at Fern Creek United Methodist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, who has been an active Bitcoiner for about two years now, he had been considering implementing Bitcoin donations for quite some time. We had a chat with him. I was always afraid of being too far out ahead of the curve. Once major charitable organizations such as United Way and the American Red Cross started accepting Bitcoin donations, I knew the time was right. The church, which has an active congregation of between four and five hundred people, now accepts Bitcoin....
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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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