A few days ago I posted about how Mozilla accepting cryptocurrency had created a stir, Mozilla has listened to people’s responses and is halting cryptocurrency donations until they review the current state of crypto to see if it is in line with their stance on the climate. They have said they will have an open and transparent process involving this.
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Ugh. I understand the problems with crypto, but I wish they’d just take the money.
Yeah, I doubt most of the people who complained about them accepting cryptocurrency will be donating in a traditional sense now.
And, like, there’s definitely worse decisions to be backpedaling on, but I definitely don’t want them backpedaling on more decisions in the future, just because there’s a shitstorm. Because there’s pretty much always a shitstorm whenever Mozilla does anything.
yeah plus those coins were already mined. not using them now after the carbons already been spent is even more of a FU to the planet
edit: admittedly that is ignoring the cost of future consensus
Sending the money is actually what produces more money, so using it has the same fingerprint
not quite sure what you mean? the carbon footprint of a transaction is negligible in comparison to mining no?
I’m pretty sure transactions are verified by mining, so its the same process.
ahh gotcha thats fair
Mining is the process of creating new coins, but these new coins are created when you add a transaction to the public ledger. You cannot dissociate mining from transactions, mining is in fact how the networks’s keepers are paid for maintaining the network and processing transactions. It is this way because it was supposed that BitCoin transactions would be free, but now you are almost always required to pay a fee to get miners interested in adding you to the block