<story><title>Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes by majority vote</title><url>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mardifoufs</author><text>Honestly the reasoning is weird. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I think crypto currencies are for the most part a scam, a ponzi scheme or a platform for pump and dumps.&lt;p&gt;Yet the whole thing just does not make sense imo. It&amp;#x27;s one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd. This 100% reminds me of the almost cultist like extremely negative reaction to anything related to crypto on some parts of twitter. Now I have been active in crypto mocking groups for years , but this feels more like some people have incorporated &amp;quot;anticrypto&amp;quot; to their daily culture war routine. So it must be purged from everywhere.&lt;p&gt;Also, I&amp;#x27;m semi active in the wiki community and I have never heard anyone talk about the climate impact of their wiki mania meetups and the hundreds of flights that it requires. Or jimbo going to davos in private planes... etc. Well maybe this is signaling that climate change will actually be taken in consideration by the foundation and the wiki editors for their future policy decisions and RFCs , but I somehow doubt it.&lt;p&gt;The other reasons are even less relevant to wikimedia&amp;#x27;s mission.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>indymike</author><text>&amp;gt; Yet the whole thing just does not make sense imo. It&amp;#x27;s one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd.&lt;p&gt;Charities generally have the luxury of having core values superior to delivering a return to investors. To not accept crypto for moral reasons makes much more sense to a not for profit that a for profit business.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes by majority vote</title><url>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mardifoufs</author><text>Honestly the reasoning is weird. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I think crypto currencies are for the most part a scam, a ponzi scheme or a platform for pump and dumps.&lt;p&gt;Yet the whole thing just does not make sense imo. It&amp;#x27;s one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd. This 100% reminds me of the almost cultist like extremely negative reaction to anything related to crypto on some parts of twitter. Now I have been active in crypto mocking groups for years , but this feels more like some people have incorporated &amp;quot;anticrypto&amp;quot; to their daily culture war routine. So it must be purged from everywhere.&lt;p&gt;Also, I&amp;#x27;m semi active in the wiki community and I have never heard anyone talk about the climate impact of their wiki mania meetups and the hundreds of flights that it requires. Or jimbo going to davos in private planes... etc. Well maybe this is signaling that climate change will actually be taken in consideration by the foundation and the wiki editors for their future policy decisions and RFCs , but I somehow doubt it.&lt;p&gt;The other reasons are even less relevant to wikimedia&amp;#x27;s mission.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bb88</author><text>&amp;gt; Honestly the reasoning is weird. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I think crypto currencies are for the most part a scam, a ponzi scheme or a a platform for pump and dumps.&lt;p&gt;and&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Yet the whole thing just does not make sense imo. It&amp;#x27;s one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd.&lt;p&gt;It seems like the first paragraph you said would be enough of a reason to not accept it.</text></comment>