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Wikipedia co-founder says Bitcoin doesn’t work, BTC community claps back

DIGIT — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:41:34 +0000

BTC proponents argued to Jimmy Wales that banks might work, but they’re not available to everyone and that storing BTC personally and storing fiat via banks are two different things.

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ChatGPT tops Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles of 2023 list

DIGIT — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 09:03:54 +0000

ChatGPT achieved 49.5 million views, surpassing and outperforming notable topics like “Deaths in 2023” and sports content.

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Wikipedia Editors List FTX’s Questionable Blunder as the Top Trading Loss of All-Time

DIGIT — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:30:22 +0000

Following the collapse of FTX at the beginning of November, two top executives from FTX and Alameda Research — Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison — have been listed among traders with the top trading losses worldwide on Wikipedia. According to the Wiki page, Bankman-Fried’s and Ellison’s so-called ‘trading loss’ of 51 billion nominal U.S. dollars […]

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Harvard University and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web Plan to Preserve Digital Information

DIGIT — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 08:00:58 +0000

On July 27, the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) announced it will be supporting an initiative with Harvard University’s Library Innovation Lab (LIL) called the “Democratizing Open Knowledge” program. With FFDW’s support, LIL plans to explore decentralized technologies that can preserve digital information. Democratizing Open Knowledge While there’s a lot of information to […]

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Wikipedia Stops Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations Citing Community’s Environmental Concerns

DIGIT — Mon, 02 May 2022 21:30:09 +0000

Wikipedia has decided to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations after eight years of doing so. The decision is based on the request by the Wikimedia community citing “issues of environmental sustainability” as a key reason. Wikipedia Discontinues Accepting Bitcoin, Crypto Donations Wikimedia Foundation has announced its decision to “discontinue direct acceptance of cryptocurrency as a means […]

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Wikimedia community supports proposal to stop foundation from accepting crypto donations

DIGIT — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 21:49:49 +0000

The arguments in favor included environmental concerns surrounding Bitcoin transactions and “the risk to the movement’s reputation for accepting cryptocurrencies.”

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Wikimedia Foundation Debates Acceptance of Cryptocurrency Donations Over Environmental Concerns

DIGIT — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:30:43 +0000

Following Mozilla’s decision to pause crypto donations due to environmental concerns, a number of Wikimedia Foundation community members have submitted a proposal that asks the foundation to stop accepting digital currency donations. The proposal explains that crypto donations “signals [an] endorsement of the cryptocurrency space,” and also says that “Cryptocurrencies may not align with the […]

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‘Emergency’: Wikipedia editors vote against classifying NFTs as art

DIGIT — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 03:19:44 +0000

“Wikipedia really can’t be in the business of deciding what counts as art or not, which is why putting NFTs, art or not, in their own list makes things a lot simpler,” editor “jonas” wrote.

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First Wikipedia edit NFT sells at Christie’s for $750K

DIGIT — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:06:25 +0000

The Wikipedia-themed sale on Christie’s also featured an iMac used by Wales to create Wikipedia, sold for $187,500.

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What Bitcoin all-time high? These 3 charts prove new retail buyers aren’t here yet

DIGIT — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:30:00 +0000

Twitter, Wikipedia and even Google search activity point to a world still unaware of the best macro asset available to anyone.

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