Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

On 11 April 2018 at 22:56, geni wrote: > But the foundation wants actual money (US$ mostly). Why convert > bitcoin into anything other than cash (which is what it does at the > moment)? in fact, I believe the WMF never touches a bitcoin - BitPay takes in the bitcoins,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

On 11 April 2018 at 22:37, James Salsman wrote: > Proof is stochastic, by random audit of submitted results, as I > understand the situation. Only works if most people aren't trying to scam you. Which if you've had any experience with concurrency you will realise is not the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

> FoldingCoin is the one where you give fake results to Folding@home > (since the maths is NP hard there is no real time way to check if your > results are real or not) Proof is stochastic, by random audit of submitted results, as I understand the situation. I'm not sure whether that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

On 10 April 2018 at 22:45, James Salsman wrote: > The Foundation has been accepting BitCoin donations. Unfortunately, > BitCoin is very wasteful in terms of electricity, and is therefore a > dirty cryptocurrency. They all are. The only difference is that bitcoin is Asic mined

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Technical Conference

Hi Pine, Yes, you are correct. The Board has not yet approved the annual plan for next year so our plans for the conference and other programs are contingent on Board approval. Best regards, Victoria > On Apr 5, 2018, at 6:56 PM, Pine W wrote: > > Hi Victoria, > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] BabelNet is remixing Wikimedia content without following CC-By-SA terms

They also appear to be using photos from Wikimedia Commons without paying attention to the license. I can find photos of mine that are CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed that are being used without any metadata at all, let alone attribution and the correct CC license info… The same is also true for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

(These are personal opinions based on my own personal interest in free and volunteer-driven social networks, not an opinion as a WMF member.) On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Leinonen Teemu wrote: > Hi, > > I have been looking for social networking service that would be

[Wikimedia-l] BabelNet is remixing Wikimedia content without following CC-By-SA terms

BabelNet (http://babelnet.org) is a multilingual knowledge resource that defines words and phrases in many languages. I've noticed that it copies large amounts of content from Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikiquote, while violating Wikimedia's CC-By-SA license by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

This is an awful idea. The primary reason the WMF needs to accept Bitcoin as a donation is due to the substantial tax benefits accepting it gives to donors. It is an asset that has increased massively in value, and holders can donate it and deduct the current value from their taxes, without

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

What would the expected energy savings be of such a move? Accepting more cryptocurrencies may make sense if the foundation can do that in a way that does not take a lot of effort. But to stop accepting bitcoin seems counterproductive to our mission. Chico Venancio Em Ter, 10 de abr de 2018