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* FSF accepts bitcoins (http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/bitcoins-a-new-way-to-donate-to-the-fsf)
* 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/)
* 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 )
* The price of a bitcoin to USD has been above $700 during 2013. The highest it's gone has been <strike>$14.33</strike> <strike>$106.00</strike> <strike>$236.00</strike> $1020. ( http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price )

Revision as of 23:27, 29 November 2013

Danny O'Brien is accepting Bitcoin donations on behalf of Noisebridge. In a mailing list post (and 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