Wikipedia may accept Bitcoin

[rohnearner]

we already donated over 21 BTC - wow!

That's a lot of donations.

not enough to convince wikiMedia to put a bitcoin donation button on wikipedia's fundraiser/donation page.   I still don't understand if we are donating to them why we are expecting something out of it.

[LiteCoinGuy]

we already donated over 21 BTC - wow!

That's a lot of donations.

not enough to convince wikiMedia to put a bitcoin donation button on wikipedia's fundraiser/donation page.  I still don't understand if we are donating to them why we are expecting something out of it.

yeah, maybe he thinks: "WoW, 21 green bucks, i can buy a pizza!"  

[sn0wfox]

As most of you probably know Wikipedia runs on donation. I just found Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has bought 0.1 BTC at Coinbase. Hopefully Wikipedia may accept Bitcoin as medium of donation soon...

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/441632741352681472


It's great to see that Bitcoin is gaining more acceptance worldwide, will LTC be the same?
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[testcoin]

As most of you probably know Wikipedia runs on donation. I just found Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has bought 0.1 BTC at Coinbase. Hopefully Wikipedia may accept Bitcoin as medium of donation soon...

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/441632741352681472


It's great to see that Bitcoin is gaining more acceptance worldwide, will LTC be the same?
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Yes I think so, and it just will take some more time.

By the way, Wikileaks has already been accepting LTC for donations since last year.

[BitCoinDream]

we already donated over 21 BTC - wow!

That's a lot of donations.

And after getting all these donations Jimmy plans to place BTC addresses on different Bitcoin groups ... NOT on wikipedia !!! How insane ? Why should we donate if u think BTC is so bad that it cant be placed on wikipedia beside PayPal ?

[LiteCoinGuy]

at least we are a little bit closer to our goal...man... 

[master-P]

Honestly, I don't think Wikipedia accepting bitcoin donations is going to make much of a difference in the grand scheme of mainstream adoption. They're the main ones who stand to benefit from adopting BTC.

[BitCoinDream]

at least we are a little bit closer to our goal...man... 

If he uses our groups to accept Bitcoin then we are nowhere close to our goal. We need Bitcoin on wikipedia page and the reason is simple. We need people to be aware of the name Bitcoin. Rest of the work is already done by Satoshi uncle

[BitCoinDream]

So it seems Jimmy Has forgot about Bitcoin by now... From one of his tweet it seems that he is now looking for Gay community donation.

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/449896712711450624

Is this what he is great at ? Managing donations from all walks of the society ?

[RocketSingh]

So, at least, Wikimedia is now accepting Bitcoin.

Source: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/wikimedia-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin/

[Karma Druid]

That's a good thing! I think we owe it to the people who gave Jimmy Wales a handful BTC some time ago!

[BitCoinDream]

So, at least, Wikimedia is now accepting Bitcoin.

Source: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/wikimedia-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin/

I wonder why there is no Bitcoin option on this page ?

https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPage&country=US&uselang=en&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_source=donate&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org

[AllYouCanDo]

Have heard that Wikipedia has already accepted them... correct me if  i'm  wrong

[freedomno1]

Have heard that Wikipedia has already accepted them... correct me if  i'm  wrong

Correct people are commenting on the location of the donation tab by the looks of it
http://www.neowin.net/news/wikipedia-starts-accepting-bitcoins-earns-140000-profit-in-the-first-week
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731970.0

https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPage&country=CA&uselang=en&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_source=donate&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org

Aka Bitcoin is listed under other ways to give right now not main page.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en

[BitCoinDream]

Have heard that Wikipedia has already accepted them... correct me if  i'm  wrong

U r correct. This is a post from March 9, 2014, when people were expecting Wikipedia to accept Bitcoin soon.

[MakeBelieve]

This is a old topic and yes they are accepting Bitcoin for donations now and have raised 250+ in Bitcoin.

[ensurance982]

As most of you probably know Wikipedia runs on donation. I just found Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has bought 0.1 BTC at Coinbase. Hopefully Wikipedia may accept Bitcoin as medium of donation soon...

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/441632741352681472


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So it now took us basically about 5 months for this rumor to become true! This shows us how fast things are progressing in the Bitcoin world. The boss himself was somewhat skeptical of Bitcoin, yet decided to get his hands on it and gave it a try. whoops, 5 months later Wikipedia accepts Bitcoin. Incredible!

[BitCoinDream]

As most of you probably know Wikipedia runs on donation. I just found Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has bought 0.1 BTC at Coinbase. Hopefully Wikipedia may accept Bitcoin as medium of donation soon...

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/441632741352681472


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www.CoinLearn.org - Learn and Earn Free Bitcoins

So it now took us basically about 5 months for this rumor to become true! This shows us how fast things are progressing in the Bitcoin world. The boss himself was somewhat skeptical of Bitcoin, yet decided to get his hands on it and gave it a try. whoops, 5 months later Wikipedia accepts Bitcoin. Incredible!

There is a fine line here that we are not discussing. That is CoinBase. They have played a crucial role for this to take place. As per detailed reports, Wikimedia wont hold any Bitcoin. They'll immediately dump the funds against CoinBase price and here CoinBase will make some profit by giving them a little lower rate than the market. Win-Win situation ... is not it ?

[Ayers]

why they make it so hidden? they are embarrassed of receiving donations in bitcoin or what?

[rohnearner]

why they make it so hidden? they are embarrassed of receiving donations in bitcoin or what?

Hmm what you were expecting a bitcoin address in bottom of every article .? that's surely not gonna happen soon maybe one day when btc takes over every other online payment procedure.