by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
Wikipedia claims that there first known “NFT” was called Quantum, created by Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash in 2014. This is wrong. A year before, Trent Mc Conaghy and Bruce Pon tokenized digital art on the Bitcoin network and subsequently founded their s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Wikipedia has decided to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations after eight years of doing so. The decision is based on the request by the Wikimedia community citing “issues of environmental sustainability” as a key reason.
Wik...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago
A small group of contributors decided that promoting their own opinions in various wikipedia articles wouldn't be enough, but they would also have to ask the Wikipedia Foundation not to accept cryptocurrency donations anymore.https://meta.wikimedia.o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
A proposal made by the Wikipedia administrator opted for a vote to know if Wikimedia Foundation would still want to receive cryptocurrency donations.
The answer to which was a reverberant no. This particular debate over the mentioned proposal has bee...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 2 years ago
Even Wikipedia fell for the environmental FUD surrounding Proof-Of-Work mining. A proposal to “stop accepting cryptocurrency donations” is currently under discussion. It starts with the same thin arguments that the whole mainstream media irresponsibl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
“Wikipedia really can’t be in the business of deciding what counts as art or not, which is why putting NFTs, art or not, in their own list makes things a lot simpler,” editor “jonas” wrot...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Wikipedia-themed sale at Christie’s also featured an iMac used by Wales to create Wikipedia, which sold for $187,500. After celebrating its 20th anniversary in Jan...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago
I have been thinking about the relationship between Bitcoin and altcoins, and how people (including me) have a hard time convincing themselves that there is only one Bitcoin and there will never be a Bitcoin 2, and no altcoin will ever be able to sur...