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Mozilla accepting donations via cryptocurrency has caused a stir. (twitter.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just before New Year's, Mozilla posted a tweet talking about how they're going to accept cryptocurrency as a donation method, and a lot of people in the replies are very upset about it. Jamie Zawinski, a Mozilla founder, has also directly responded to it.

What's your thoughts on this?

Wayback Machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220105052253/https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1476951030638260225

Update: https://lemmy.ml/post/140209

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I just took a look at what coins they take and yikes... all centralized coins. As in, the company behind the coin folds and the coin becomes worthless. Well, except Bitcoin, which is decentralized, but unfortunately is also an enormous energy hog, which other users here and on Twitter have pointed out.

So, yeah. I think they're right to call this a bad move. If you're going to support crypto, for the love of god, at least pick one that doesn't gobble up huge amounts of electricity or one that doesn't make rich people richer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Ah yes, Bitcoin is so decentralized only large institutions can afford to use it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I meant decentralized as in there's no company or organisation behind Bitcoin, but yes, it's very cost prohibitive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

In what way? Bitcoin Lightning payments are cheaper than visa.