Topic: Mozilla now accept BTC - page 3. (Read 4486 times)

Firefox is based on donations.

donated some BTC

The Mozilla Foundation is registered as a non-profit organisation, as such exempt from federal income tax.

Not sure if all BTC donations are liquidated to USD as Coinbase clients can choose the proportion %. Either way it's just another way for people who use Mozilla open source products to contribute (without giving away 3-6% to Paypal).

I like their Firefox browser, so I just donated $50 worth (you get directed to Coinbase who just ask for email address) - smooth process.

Registered for a Coinbase account back in the day, never really had the need to use them, as I'm based outside US.

Never knew Mozilla was a non-profit before this, lol. Interesting to learn that their revenue has quite a history, surging in 2004+, this past fiscal year saw only a 1% rise. However, the Foundation published a $314,000,000 revenue for 2012-13. Pretty impressive accomplishment in a competitive market.


Makes me think about the revenue Apple and Google make selling their consumer products and the premium users pay to use their operating systems/linked advertising.

Mozilla recently launched a concept phone? Their aim being to provide an OS to rival and out-perform Apple's in usability, functionality and cost. I'm lucky because my previous job in earth sciences paid very well, but not everyone can afford an iphone nor macbook pros. Though Apple products are good, they are also way over priced to the average consumer. It's community-based developers like those who contribute to organisations like Mozilla that will one day out-perform proprietary systems.

This is in alignment with Bitcoin ethos!

http://www.cnet.com/news/mozillas-big-revenue-increases-come-to-abrupt-halt/


Also, interestingly approximately 90% of that revenue was from Google via their search bar integration and Google's Adsense product. 2015 will be the last year for this arrangement and Mozilla are going to move with Yahoo thereafter.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/21/mozilla-releases-annual-report-for-2013-revenue-up-just-1-to-314m-and-again-90-came-from-google/

lolwut? Not sure if troll. Mozilla now accept BTC for donations

You mean we now need to buy Firefox?   

I wouldn't trust anything google puts out. Chrome is nice and clean but I prefer Firefox all the way for several reasons.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give


missed that?

Well, it maybe not exactly accepting bitcoin, but at least its better than Wikipedia that doesn't accept no Bitcoin at all.

I switched from Firefox to Chrome about a year ago. Just switched back last night. Chrome has a good interface and being synced across all devices is awesome but its obvious that Firefox cares much more about privacy than Google does.

thats it.

i was just getting use to using google chrome now i think i might just switch back to mozilla firefox again

Another Good Step for bitcoin ! 
I hope there will be other big step for bitcoin , we will go to the moon 

Mozilla now accepts* bitcoins** as donations! The revolution*** is here!


* on a hidden page, not their main donation page

** USD from Coinbase

*** doesn't want your bitcoins, give us cash plz.

cant see it:

What will they do with bitcoin and when will they totally cooperate with Tor

It's probably easier to list the things that the Blockchain can't make better.
http://formtek.com/blog/internet-of-things-iot-applying-bitcoin-technology-to-iot-architecture/

Glad to see they finally caved in to requests. Just shows that if people ask we can sway companies to get involved. There's no reason why companies shouldn't accept btc donations as it is costless to them and also very likely cheaper than accepting donations via Paypal and creditcards etc.

I'm no expert but how could they do that? I keep hearing about all the different uses the blockchain can be used for but haven't really read anything that explains it simply. Is there any articles showing all the different possible uses of the blockchain technology?

This.

That's great news! I use mozilla for like two years now, and it's great to see them accept Bitcoin donations  

I will definitely make a Bitcoin donation. Hope other tech and non tech related companies will follow.