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 trad...
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Can decentralized site IQ.wiki offer a better knowledge source for web3 than Wikipedia? #SlateCast 30
IQ.wiki, formerly Everipedia, has ambitions to shake up blockchain and cryptocurrency knowledge via open collaboration and the wiki-based editing process. Although Wikipedia is among the top ten most ...
Shiba Inu (SHIB) Team Working On SHIB Wikipedia To Fight FUDs
– Advertisement – Shiba Inu (SHIB) Team Working On SHIB Wikipedia to fight FUDs and false information. The team behind Shiba Inu (SHIB) is reportedly working to create the “SHIB Wikipedi...
Dogepedia: A Wikipedia For Dogecoin, A Tool To Tackle FUD
The Dogecoin developer shared a website in a Twitter post. It is believed to be a weapon against fear, uncertainty and doubt. Dogecoin was trading at $0.06634 at the time of writing. An Educational St...
Bitcoin: What Wikipedia won’t tell you about BTC’s recovery to May levels
Bitcoin [BTC] is back above $23,000 for the first time since 13 June, thanks to a strong bullish performance in the last seven days. Eagle-eyed BTC enthusiasts may have noticed that the latest rally p...
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...
Wikipedia Shuts Down Crypto Donation Function Following Community Pressure
The parent company of the world’s largest open-source online encyclopedia is closing the book on accepting crypto assets as donations. In a lengthy page documenting the process of debate and voting am...
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...
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...
Wikipedia halts crypto donation payments after 8 years of service
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the nonprofit company that operates Wikipedia, has declared that it would no longer accept donations in cryptocurrency. An update from the WMF states that it “has deci...
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...
WAM Hackathon Gathers 2,400 Attendees, Completes PoC for Uncensorable Wikipedia
From March 1-21, Swarm, a blockchain protocol for decentralized storage and communication, in collaboration with Fair Data Society (FDS), held the ‘We Are Millions’ Web3 hackathon. During these three ...
Wikipedia Editors Don’t Want Your Bitcoin
70% of votes were cast in favor of halting the process Around $130,000 in donations to the WMF were made BTC price at the time of writing – $39,404.82 The morals of digital currency are generally und...
Wikipedia: editors say no to crypto donations
More than 70% of Wikipedia editors at the Wikimedia Foundation have voted to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations. One of the main reasons is to protect the environment, which is threatened by mini...
Why Wikipedia Editors Aren’t Too Keen On Crypto Donations?
A proposal made by the Wikipedia administrator opted for a vote to know if Wikimedia Foundation would still want to receive cryptocurrency donations. The answer to which was a reverberant no. This par...
Most Wikipedia Community Members Want Crypto Donations Banned: Poll
The online pushback against proof-of-work cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin shows no sign of letting up. A three-month-long poll conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees funding for Wikipedia...
Wikipedia To Halt Crypto Donations Over Energy Concerns
The Wikipedia Community on Thursday closed a long-running vote over whether the encyclopedia should stop accepting donations in cryptocurrencies. At the final tally, about 71% of the community voted a...
Wikipedia editors call to halt crypto donations
TL;DR Breakdown • Over 70 percent of Wikipedia society members called for crypto donations to be shut down.• Wikimedia Organization will analyze the request and decide in the next few days The Wikiped...
Russia Demands Wikipedia Take Down Information About Ukraine War
Topline The Russian media regulator threatened Wikipedia with fines Thursday of up to 4 million rubles (about $49,000) if it doesn’t delete information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that diverges...
Wikipedia download boom in Russia
After Putin’s Russia banned foreign social and news sites in the country, accused of propaganda and misinformation, there was a boom in downloads of the Russian version of the world’s most famous onli...
Loser.com Trolls Vladimir Putin, Redirecting To His Wikipedia Page
Topline The website loser.com is redirecting to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Wikipedia page, making the strongman the latest boldface name to be roasted by the owner of the website, who has used...
Opinion: Why Won’t Wikipedia Classify NFTs as Art?
Key Takeaways Wikipedia editors have removed NFT art by Pak from the site’s list of most expensive artworks by living artists. Editors state that they made the change because the work was sold f...
Wikipedia is accepting crypto donations despite coercion
Wikipedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, tries to stay as inclusive as possible. It began to accept crypto donations previously but faced several hits. However, recently it has been noted that...
How Wikipedia’s Classification Of NFTs As ‘Not Art’ Impacts Equity In The Art World
Wikipedia Getty Images In a lot of ways, NFTs have represented an opportunity for artists to bypass traditional gatekeepers, allowing a more diverse range of artists to reach collectors and sell their...
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are not ‘ART’, according to Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a very well-known online platform to get information. Anyone who’s searching for information and data about any stuff, they prefer Wikipedia. It is considered to be an online encyclopedia...
As per a debate on Wikipedia, NFTs can’t be categorized as an ‘art’ because…
Going in 2022, Non fungible tokens (NFTs) have become a household name now. These so-called “digital collectibles” experienced a meteoric rise in 2021. To summarize, NFTs have taken the world by storm...
Wikipedia Considers To Stop Accepting Crypto Donations Because Of The ESG FUD
Even Wikipedia fell for the environmental FUD surrounding Proof-Of-Work mining. A proposal to “stop accepting cryptocurrency donations” is currently under discussion. It starts with the same thin argu...