On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 06:29:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 10/29/2015 08:59 PM, Joakim wrote:
> it's very easy to set up a bitcoin address to receive
donations
I really appreciate it but... I am embarrassed to reveal that I
don't want to have bitcoins. :) I can't explain this
rationally; perhaps I was bitten by a coin in the dark when I
was a young child; I don't know... The feeling is very similar
to my not wanting to be on LinkedIn, Facebook, and other
similar things. :)
I can understand not wanting to be on any of those social
networks: I have never joined a social network, including
twitter, and don't read, let alone register with, any of the
link-sharing sites, like reddit, with the rare exception of a
D-related link in the forum. If a blog or forum requires a
facebook/google/twitter login, anything more than an email
address, I don't comment. I resisted joining github till I had
to in order to contribute to D.
But I don't see how bitcoin is similar to any of those, perhaps
you have _some_ explanation? You don't have to keep the bitcoin,
all those sites will buy your bitcoin with dollars anytime you
want. It's just an open way to trade value- in your case, just
another payment/donation method- I don't see the issue. If it
required setting up a bunch of software, sure, but those websites
make it easy to set up, as they run the client for you.
