Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy-Wales has received 21BTC in 7 days?!

[subSTRATA]

I don't know why anyone has sent these douche's one single satoshi.  

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The Wikimedia Foundation, as a donor-driven organization, has a fiduciary duty to be responsible and prudent with its money. The Foundation does not currently accept Bitcoin or other currencies not backed by the full faith and credit of an issuing government. We do, however, strive to provide as many methods of donating as possible and continue to monitor Bitcoin with interest and may revisit this position should circumstances change.

Of course, this deeply upset a lot of bitcoiners.  However, I don't think this is sufficient to explain the level of hate here.

Text in red is more than sufficient to explain the level of hate here but you have no clue where you are now, obviously. It is so because people like
theymos allowed you and alikes to roam around here.

[HorseCoin]

wwop dee doo
some asshat on #bitcoin-dev gave me 300 for mentioning that he needed a #include <stdio.h> back in the first month of bitcoin 

[teukon]

I'm pretty sure this guy recognizes that us wanting him to accept bitcoin donations isnt because of our love for Wikipedia but our desire to have bitcoin's reputation further legitimized. A flurry of activity that slows to a trickle after a month isn't going to convince him to help advertise for us for free.

I largely agree but please note that your "us" does not represent everyone here.  Some have donated because they actually want to support Wikipedia.  Some are not donating because they are rightly angry about Wikimedia's very anti-liberty statement (quoted above).  For me, the former consideration outweighed the latter, but I can respect those in the other camp.

However, I despise the "us" you describe; those that are actually trying to manipulate Jimbo into selling out.  While I'm confident that he will never be bought, A part of me hopes that he drops the idea of Bitcoin for now out of disgust for these people.

TL;DR: Bitcoiners love to buy things; Wikipedia is not something to be bought.

[BombaUcigasa]

I donated "ten bucks" in bitcoin last year to Khan Academy. While I'm sure that the sum is now worth around "fifty bucks", they only obtained the instant value.

If Wikimedia officially accepts my bitcoin donation, then I will give the suggested donation, which they claim could solve the begging message in half an hour.

I also donated in the past with PayPal because I used MediaWiki 1.3 for a community site with great success.

[Francecrypto]

Well actually they may receive Bitcoins at a fast rate, but I suppose they also have huge running cost for such a site right?

So in the end they will end up reinjecting that money in the market (be it Bitcoin or dollars or whatever) and shouldn't own that many bitcoin at a given time. Dunno maybe I am wrong.