Western sanctions have forced beleaguered Russian journalists to turn to cryptocurrencies to keep their operations running. In the days following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, readers of the prominent...
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Russian Free Press affected by economic sanctions: requests crypto donations from international community
Meduza, an independent Russian news outlet launched a crypto donations page back in April last year after being penalised by the Russian government. Now, with their content blocked in Russia, Meduza i...
Federal Election Donations in the U.S. can now be Made in Crypto
Federal Election coming up? Well now, you can donate to your fave candidate in crypto. Elections will still be an absolute sideshow however. Elections are becoming quite the circus, especially electio...
Pawtocol Permits Crypto Donations for New Pet Fund
Pawtocol – a blockchain platform designed to improve the lives of both pets and their owners – announced the establishment of what’s known as Pawtocol Pet Fund, the first blockchain-powered fund built...
Wikipedia stops accepting cryptocurrency donations
Wikipedia has said it will no longer be accepting donations in crypto, closing its Bitpay account following a three month debate by the Wikimedia Foundation. The initial proposition by Wikipedia edito...
Wikimedia Foundation Suspends Crypto Donations After 8 Years
The Wikimedia Foundation, the parent company of Wikipedia has suspended all crypto donations on its platform, in the aftermath of a three-month-long discussion about the fate of the cryptocurrencies o...
Wikipedia Stops Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations Citing Community’s Environmental Concerns – Featured Bitcoin News
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 sustaina...
Wikipedia Shuts Its Doors On Crypto Donations, Citing Environmental Concerns ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism continues to raise environmental concerns. As a result, Wikimedia, the foundation behind the popular onli...
Wikimedia Foundation passes proposal halting crypto donations
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced it will be closing its BitPay account. The closure comes as the company discontinues cryptocurrency donations after negative community feedback about digital ass...
Wikipedia halts cryptocurrency donations after accepting them for 8 years
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the non-profit organization that manages Wikipedia has announced that it has stopped accepting crypto donations. In an update made by the WMF, the organization said it ...
Wikipedia Stops Accepting BTC, ETH, BCH Donations After 8 Years Wikipedia Stops Accepting BTC, ETH, BCH Donations after 8 Years
After a 3-month long debate among its community members, Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the no-profit organization behind the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has decided to stop accepting cryptocurrency d...
Wikimedia Halts Crypto Donations Due to Fears Over Energy Consumption
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has announced it will stop accepting crypto donations citing environmental concerns. The decision by Wikimedia’s parent was taken at the end of last month following a t...
Wikimedia Foundation shutters BitPay account halting crypto donations
The Wikimedia Foundation, which backs Wikipedia, will shut down its BitPay account and has announced it will stop accepting cryptocurrency donations based on community feedback. The decision to end cr...
Wikipedia to Stop Accepting Crypto Donations on Environmental, Other Grounds
The decision came in response to a community vote on a proposal to the foundation from contributor Molly White, who goes by the user name GorillaWarfare, argued that accepting donations in cryptocurre...
Wikipedia Bans Crypto Donations
Alex Dovbnya The Wikimedia Foundation has granted the community’s request to ban cryptocurrency donations The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, has ha...
Ukrainian Government Now NFTs Ready, Starts Accepting Donations
Ukraine goes on with crypto utilization for help with its military supplies in the ongoing war with Russia. The invaded country will now accept war effort contributions in Non-Fungible Tokens (N...
Musk Likely Paid Portion Of Amber Heard’s Pledged ACLU Donations, Exec Testifies
Topline An executive for the American Civil Liberties Union testified Thursday in Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s defamation trial that he believes Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who dated Heard, paid a portion o...
TON Foundation Secured $1B in Donations from Users to Advance Ecosystem
The TON Foundation has secured a massive $1 billion in donations from users with some big investors contributing a majority on their part. The TON Foundation emerged from the crypto project abandoned ...
Dogecoin Foundation Receives One Million DOGE Donations to Make the Token “the People’s Currency”
– Advertisement – DOGE proponents are still poised to make cryptocurrency the people’s currency. MyDoge, the self-custodian Dogecoin wallet developer, recently made a whopping donation o...
Ireland drafts law halting crypto donations to political parties
Ireland has formulated a new law targeting cryptocurrency donations made to political parties in the country. The new law was created by a task force created by Minister Darragh O’Brien earlier this y...
Wikimedia Foundation Turns Its Back on Crypto Donations
The Wikimedia Foundation has voted to stop accepting payments or donations in cryptocurrency, a huge blow to the industry. Wikimedia Votes Against Future Crypto Payments Many of the world’s biggest cr...
Presbyterian Church in Florida Now Accepts Donations In Dogecoin
– Advertisement – Presbyterian Church in Florida Accepts Dogecoin Donations. First Miami Presbyterian Church in Florida has announced it will be accepting Dogecoin donations going forwar...
Republic of Ireland to Prohibit Political Cryptocurrency Donations – Regulation Bitcoin News
The government of Ireland is preparing to ban political parties from accepting campaign donations in cryptocurrency. The move aims to block the perceived threat of Russian interference in the European...
Here’s how bitcoin donations are helping Ukraine –
Government also announced that it would accept donations of the cryptocurrency Polkadot Experts fear that Russia could circumvent the sanctions by fleeing to cryptocurrencies All donations are intend...
Ireland bans political crypto donations
New political and electoral integrity laws proposed in Ireland According to the new law, donations made in crypto to political parties are banned Central Bank of Ireland also issued a warning to consu...
Ireland Bans Crypto Donations for Political Parties Fearing Russian Intervention (Report)
Citing fears of Russian intervention, Irish authorities have implemented new integrity rules that prohibit political donations sent in the form of cryptocurrencies. The nation has also incorporated st...
Irish Political Parties to Be Banned from Accepting Crypto Donations
Political parties in Ireland will be banned from accepting financial donations through cryptocurrencies under a new set of rules that are being drafted. According to The Independent, the maneuver seek...
Ireland bans political crypto donations on foreign interference fears
Donations made to political parties using cryptocurrencies will be banned in Ireland under new political integrity laws drafted due to concerns around foreign interference in politics. Amendments prop...
Ukraine’s vice prime minister thanks the crypto community for donations
Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the cryptocurrency community has been active in supporting the Ukrainian government financially. More than $100M worth of crypto aid has been sent to Ukraine. ...
Ireland Governor Proposes Banning Crypto Donations to Political Parties
Editors News O’Brien pointed out that political disinformation is a severe threat to democracy worldwide. The country’s relationship with cryptocurrencies has a checkered past. Russian cyber-interfere...
Ireland to Ban Crypto Donations to Political Parties
Ireland has announced electoral reforms that will ban political parties from accepting donations in cryptocurrency. New rules on political integrity will be introduced to counter potential Russian cyb...