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Title: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: killhamster on December 10, 2013, 08:44:02 PM I'm sure we all know the story by now:
Quote Unfortunately we do not accept bitcoin, however, we are aware of bitcoin and we will continue to monitor it with interest. I'm genuinely curious, however, how much they might be missing out on by not taking Bitcoin donations in addition to PayPal, credit card, check, and other donation methods. The minimum donation amount (provided you don't plug a smaller number into the "other" field,) is only 3 USD, while there is theoretically no limit to how much one can give them. My question to you, friends and enemies alike, is just how much you are willing to part with to help Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, were they accepting Bitcoin, either in local currency units or BTC. ETA: Yes, I am aware of the option through Bitpay. This is valid as well, and amounts given/to be given through this are requested as well. Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: usscfounder on December 10, 2013, 08:56:31 PM Who cares?
If my business model depended on charity I wouldn't have any restrictions on what was donated as long as it was convertible. If they are too stupid to accept Bitcoin to help fund their organization then too bad for them. With approx $10 billion worldwide cryptocurrency market wikipedia is no longer important to Bitcoin or any of the alt coins. We don't need them anymore. Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: killhamster on December 10, 2013, 08:58:42 PM That's one way to look at it. Thanks ;D
Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: XBBlade on December 10, 2013, 09:04:35 PM I would donate some dust simply because I don't have more :(
Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: No_2 on December 10, 2013, 09:28:10 PM Just did my usual Christmas donation to them, via credit card payment. Shame :(.
Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: solex on December 10, 2013, 09:32:24 PM You can donate to Wikipedia with bitcoins already. BitPay provides a service.
http://blog.bitpay.com/2012/11/donate-to-wikipedia-with-bitcoin.html Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: LiteCoinGuy on December 10, 2013, 09:39:05 PM 5-10 USD i guess.
Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: killhamster on December 10, 2013, 09:39:22 PM You can donate to Wikipedia with bitcoins already. BitPay provides a service. http://blog.bitpay.com/2012/11/donate-to-wikipedia-with-bitcoin.html Yes I know. Yes, I am aware of the option through Bitpay. This is valid as well, and amounts given/to be given through this are requested as well. Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: Dafar on December 10, 2013, 09:53:41 PM bout three fiddy
Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: jones31 on December 10, 2013, 09:55:06 PM I think that the results would be inaccurate.
Lot's of people will claim they are willing to donate more that they actually think just to either show off or thinking that the results would make an influence on wiki decisions :) Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: jongameson on December 10, 2013, 10:41:20 PM 1-2 satoshis
Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: kokojie on December 10, 2013, 11:57:34 PM none, they have shown their true colors towards Bitcoin. Plus I won't donate anything until the reign of deletionists are over at wikipedia.
Title: Re: If Wikipedia were to accept Bitcoin, how much would you be willing to donate? Post by: TheJacob on December 11, 2013, 12:40:38 AM I guess this would help if people wanted to give really small amounts?
Wouldn't they then need to manage wallets carefully? If you wanted to give $5+ you'd just convert to USD and ship it their way. Agree with the deletionists thing too. I'd go on there and spend some time writing an article that was actually correct on a topic that had a very minimal and wrong entry only to find it got reverted by someone who didn't know the first thing about it. |