https://www.noisebridge.net/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=77.58.104.117&feedformat=atomNoisebridge - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T05:01:31ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.4https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Bitcoin&diff=42868Bitcoin2014-06-10T21:02:36Z<p>77.58.104.117: /* Anti-controversy */ Updating really old information.</p>
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<div>[[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:<br />
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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)<br><br />
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=== Controversy ===<br />
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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."<br />
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=== Anti-controversy ===<br />
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* It's not a Ponzi scheme if you can get your money converted back immediately (via: [http://coinbase.com coinbase.com], [http://bitpay.com bitpay.com] or one of the many other payment processors or exchanges).<br />
* Fringe ideas are always ridiculed. <br />
* Bitcoins have been around for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin 5 years now] and have had hundreds of millions invested in related startups / infrastructure.<br />
* The [http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/bitcoins-a-new-way-to-donate-to-the-fsf FSF], [https://supporters.eff.org/donate EFF] and many other important institutions accept bitcoin.<br />
* WikiLeaks [http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/08/20/wikileaks-bypasses-financial-blockade-with-bitcoin/ received support via bitcoin] during the Visa financial blockade.<br />
* The USD value of 1 Bitcoin has risen to <strike>$14.33</strike> <strike>$106.00</strike> <strike>$236.00</strike> $1132.26. ([https://bitcoinaverage.com/charts#USD-averages-false November 29, 2013 08:30])</div>77.58.104.117