Bitcoin Accepting Churches

[Fred3030]

It is a positive development for churches to start accepting bitcoin as a means of donation, although in my country I am yet to hear of any religious body that accepts bitcoin as means of donation. This is so because only less than 1% of my country's population has actually heard of the term bitcoin, and for the few that have heard, most consider it scam.

[betty11]

Giving donations to churches in cryptocurrencies will be a very nice innovation especially when sending it to a far away churches or one's home church, this way no monitoring by financial agents and low transfer fee.

[alexcopper]

That is absolutely fascinating. I guess I never really thought to look at places like churches to accept bitcoin but I guess this is another space that is necessary for mass adoption.

[sunsilk]

Most religions in our country disagree with the adoption of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin.

Why? bitcoin does have monetary value and as said it can be exchanged to any currency in the future but actually you can do it today. And that's with the use of many exchanges, globally and locally.

Can you name those religions that disagree the adoption of bitcoin? I don't think that there's something related to religion and bitcoin and I'm very curious to know why they disagree with that if they can also benefit by receiving donations through it.

Maybe, they are still hesitant to accept bitcoin because they don't know how to deal with it yet. If people are not knowledgeable on how to do business with bitcoin or any other crypto, then they would be hesitant to accept it. But I believe if you teach them the basics around it, the benefits and advantages, high chance that they will gladly accept it. Most people are hesitant with something owed to their ignorance of the matter on hand.

I'm also thinking that what they only know about bitcoin is its old use as a tool for illegal transactions and they are still not aware that it's already on the mainstream and everyone can use it for good transactions as well.

We can't force them to use bitcoin if they don't want to use it and disagrees to its adoption. Yet, I'm still very curious to know what are those religions that you he had mentioned.

[Nalbo]

Surprisingly churches here too accept bitcoin as a donation. They are filled with old and traditional people yet they have been given some sort of information from another organization that manages the address for them and process the exchange to give churches cash. The churches are nearly financially independent for the task they manage and bitcoin is bringing donations from near and far.

[Bunsomjelican]

Here in my country, there are actually lot of merchants now that accepting bitcoin as mode of payment to their business already.
But I never heard and didn't know that there is some church accepting bitcoin. what does that means? are they accepting it as one of the donation or offering?

[stadus]

Here in my country, there are actually lot of merchants now that accepting bitcoin as mode of payment to their business already.
But I never heard and didn't know that there is some church accepting bitcoin. what does that means? are they accepting it as one of the donation or offering?

Most likely, because if we are talking about church involving money, the first thing that will come into our mind is the donation.
Church soon will also adopt with the technology as more option will help them receive more donations.
They have to increase the donations received and find ways to do it as the church only live in donations of the people or its followers.

[BitHodler]

Maybe, they are still hesitant to accept bitcoin because they don't know how to deal with it yet. If people are not knowledgeable on how to do business with bitcoin or any other crypto, then they would be hesitant to accept it. But I believe if you teach them the basics around it, the benefits and advantages, high chance that they will gladly accept it. Most people are hesitant with something owed to their ignorance of the matter on hand.

It depends on their mentality too. I'm sure that a lot of churches are so conservative and government supportive, that they might not even want to accept it because it's being created out of thin air and doesn't have a central bank behind it.

I still bump into people from time to time who can't or don't want to understand that the government not backing it doesn't mean Bitcoin is a scam or safe haven currency for criminals.

I see the problem mainly being the transaction fees due small scale donations. If they don't understand how Bitcoin works and send a multi input transaction with a low fee, it may be stuck for days depending on the state of the network.

[kaya11]

While I am searching for churches that readily accept bitcoin for donations, I realized that there are now some who seem to see the potential use of cryptocurrency in their financial operation (religious groups do need money as just like any other organizations).

"Father Rosado believes that St. John’s the Evangelist is the first Catholic Church to accept bitcoins and he thinks virtual currency donations can be much more useful than those in fiat currencies. 'In theory, in the future, you could exchange bitcoins for any currency. It would be faster to move money around,' said Father Rosado."

"An evangelical church in Zurich will begin accepting offerings in the cryptocurrency bitcoin. “Digital currencies and the blockchain technology will change our daily lives more and more in the next years,” Nicolas Legler, spokesperson for Zurich's ICF Church, told Swiss media."

Have you encountered a denomination near your area accepting bitcoin or cryptocurrency? Would you share the same idea to the denomination or faith you are a part of?

I don't if this could bring an enlightenment like for the people of the book, but I believe here in our country, the mass or majority of the people believe in our leader, the president. The thing is he doesn't support any churches at all. The fact that he does't care about the 500 years upcoming celebration of Christianity here proves he don't mingle at all.

[Bes19]

I never heard such thing here on our country since bitcoin is still not legalized here though there are merchants that accept bitcoin. But hopefully if ever there will be a mass adoption on churches, i hope bitcoin would not be use for their own purpose.

[Naginiya]

Churches are moving with the new trend.Great news to here.Old barrios will break.BTC wallets will open.From now on our btc lovers can send their donations directly to church's account.If the churches can accept bitcoin why the companies can't accept that? Great news ..Great start..

[joinfree]

It's has always been a great relief anytime is see that some people are adopting the use of cryptocurrencies in all this hatred and denial about cryptocurrencies. This would go a long way to change the perceptions of believers about the use of cryptocurrencies and the fact that it is not some sort of scammers currency.

[Ryan Dugan]

You guys should check out biblepay if this is your thing. I know you asked for bitcoin but biblepay is better it has its very own currency. I'm insure of they support churches yet but I know they include Bible versus in their block chain. It might be something some of you will take interest in.

[bhabygrim]

It is great that some church are accepting it as donation.
And I think it could help them a lot just imagine some church from other countries that is doing some activities to help others and need some funds.
People from all over the world could help them easily and they would get the money way more faster.

[Vinalians]

Some people here saying that it is not right. Well, I guess it is not wrong to follow what is on-trend. Group of religious are using cryptocurrency for funding and that is a good start. They have the advantage. They for sure have the knowledge. We should see this as a kind of adoption in the real world and not just in the virtual world.

[uneng]

Have you encountered a denomination near your area accepting bitcoin or cryptocurrency? Would you share the same idea to the denomination or faith you are a part of?

I have never seen this, even because many religious tend to stay away from technology and its innovations. Furthermore, many religious people have issues with money: many of them see money as an evil thing, and preach against the accumulation of material goods.
So, bitcoin, as a speculative investment is very frowned upon among these groups. I don't think they are going to adopt it now or soon. I know not all religious communities think this way and some of them value prosperity as result from hard work, but it's not the case here.

[mich]

I mentioned the idea to my local pastor and he was not familiar with how BITCOIN would be able to benefit the church.
He is a older man so this is probably the reason why he was not familiar with the new technology even though he said he was aware it existed
Maybe if your church pastor is younger and interested in crypto then your church will begin to accept BITCOIN but mine was not willing to do so.

[Ferris419]

Sounds good but in our country the scene is different! Church or any kind of religious institutions won't take donations in online money! They say donation should be hand to hand or in real cash, not in Payoneer or any other currency, but if you want to donate from other countries, then online money can be accepted! In our country, Bitcoin still needs 20 years more to be accepted in these sectors!

[Cuk0ng_bitc0in]

in London there are some public figures who accept donations for public needs by receiving BTC.  the Bitcoin community in my country has active transactions using BTC.  adoption is very important.  but knowledge is also very important for stabilizing the graph.

[romero121]

The churches accepting bitcoin around the globe is not a big thing in my view. Particularly this is very common with churches on the western nation. Few years back itself this is being started by the churches, what they need is donations and when people are ready to give in terms of cryptocurrencies and if they're not ready then loss is to the church fund. Accounting the same long back itself churches started accepting bitcoins as donations.