Bitcoin

2013-04-09T20:39:50Z

99.231.101.49: /* Anti-controversy */

[[User:Malaclyps|Danny O'Brien]] is accepting [http://bitcoin.org Bitcoin] donations on behalf of Noisebridge. In a [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2011-May/022986.html mailing list post] (and [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2011-May/022999.html followup]), he sent the following clear-signed GPG message:

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I can take bitcoins for Noisebridge (I'm on the board for whatever that counts as -- at the very least, Noisebridge have a tradition that you can give cash to a board member as a donation) 
 
1B5sJQ6Wu6AmK9xG5YTic4Nszw4PS7UMAM 
 
d. 
 
 
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=== Controversy ===

According to an unsigned edit to this page by 69.181.70.193, "Bitcoins are an enormously stupid Ponzi scheme that no self respecting hacker should touch with a 10 foot grounded pole."

=== Anti-controversy ===

* It's not a Ponzi scheme if you can get your money converted back immediately, is it (hint: http://mtgox.com, a Bitcoin exchange)? Some more perspective: http://weusecoins.com
* Fringe ideas are always ridiculed.
* Bitcoins have been around for 2.5years now
* FSF accepts bitcoins (http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/bitcoins-a-new-way-to-donate-to-the-fsf)
* WikiLeaks accepts bitcoins (http://shop.wikileaks.org/donate http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/08/20/wikileaks-bypasses-financial-blockade-with-bitcoin/)
* The price of a bitcoin to USD has been above $2 during 2012. The highest it's gone has been <strike>$14.33</strike> <strike>$106.00</strike> $236.00. ( http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price )

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