On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 09:40:15AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > The EFF changed its mind two years later. > > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty
Ok, from the above link: You can now give Bitcoins to EFF in the same way that you can give stock. EFF has long had a policy that converts gifts of stock and items like cars into cash immediately on receipt. At the very minimum, we should have a policy like that, as Bitcoin is more an asset than money. The referenced link has even more interesting stuff, which I'll quote: [...] we note here that Bitcoin is very often not anonymous in the ways users might believe or expect, because (for instance) the network doesn't actively conceal the IP addresses from which transactions were initiated; its expenditure of large amounts of computational resources may turn out to be unnecessary; and its monetary policy is controversial and arguably designed to incentivize adoption and holding of the currency, rather than maximizing valuable economic transactions. To me, it's sad to see that we seem to be officially endorsing Bitcoin without any debate at all. If we accept Bitcoin, we should probably accept competing so-called-cryptocurrencies as well. Should Debian favour one cryptocurrency over the others? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140827020131.GA4093@dell