Mozilla: Bitcoin Option Weighed on Online Donations
According to a study conducted by Mozilla, the addition of a bitcoin option dragged the value of online donations collected through its Firefox browser. Due to popular demand, the company has recently added a bitcoin payment button to its primary donations form but it seems to have had a negative impact. Mozilla released data collected from a statistical study on the impact of adding a bitcoin button on the main campaign donation page and revealed that it may have distracted visitors and even reduced donations from non-bitcoin donors. Bitcoin and Donations. For other companies and....
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Mozilla, the team behind the well-known Firefox browser, recently announced that it was including Bitcoin as one of the many ways people can choose to support the organization. Mozilla is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting openness, accessibility, and innovation on the Web. It seems that a lot of Mozilla supporters demanded the ability to donate using bitcoin; Mozilla added a bitcoin payment button to its primary donations form after receiving numerous requests from donors. With this move, Mozilla has joined a growing number of merchants and organizations that accept bitcoin,....
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Purveyor of an open web, Mozilla (known for its Firefox browser) is contemplating accepting bitcoins in its fundraising efforts. Reddit user taliesan -- who identifies himself as Geoffrey MacDougall, head of development at the Mozilla Foundation -- has been picking the brains of the Bitcoin community, asking for resources as the company researches whether to take donations in the cryptocurrency. "There are a number of people on my team advocating for it, as well," he said. First kicked off two days ago, the thread on the Bitcoin subreddit has received favorable reactions from fellow users,....
Mozilla, the open-source development community behind the popular Firefox web browser, is now accepting bitcoin donations. The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit entity that provides support for the community's broad open-source development, will be partnering with Coinbase to accept bitcoin contributions. The California-based bitcoin services provider announced the deal on its blog, where it reinforced that, per its policies toward charities, it will not charge fees for the donations it processes. With the news, Mozilla joins the growing number of non-profit organizations that support....