Bribery issues are irrelevant, you can bribe more easily in cash.
I told them that I'd be willing to donate thousands if they accepted Bitcoin. No dice. This year I didn't even get an email response back, either. At least last year I got a "we'll think about it".
I've previously given to them in the hundreds when the dollar was the more prevalent currency for donations. Now it doesn't make sense to explicitly exclude Bitcoin, and their opposition to it is a clear violation of NPOV.
Until they fix whatever is marrying them to fiat money and the governments that print them, I cannot, in good conscience, support them in their endeavours. They need to show they are above the censorship of states and statist-leaning editors, not subjects of them. Their reluctance to adopt this new donation method has become the primary reason why I now refuse to donate at all, despite having done so on an annual basis previously. It would appear that the
reliance they have on fiat has become so entwined that it clearly threatens their NPOV. They've taken a "stance" in clear opposition to libertarian and anarchist early adopters of Bitcoin when they have no good reason to do so.
That said, I understand that there are
alternatives to donate Bitcoin to Wikipedia, but these skirt the real issue, that Wikipedia fundamentally believes it should be subject to
only the largesse of those bearing state-issued currency. I cannot and
will not donate to such a cause.
