Wikipedia founder asking for help to learn Bitcoin - page 3.

BittBurger

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Quote from: bitbrasil on March 10, 2014, 11:43:46 AM

I certainly am not sending not even one satoshi to the guy who is part of the 1% richest people in the world and who is responsible for centralizing information on the internet.

Think bigger picture man. This isn't about that. Its about BTC succeeding. Billions of people being liberated from centralized banking systems. Freedom from corrupt governments. Poorest people in the world performing remittances and getting to keep that $40 they would've given Western union. And your coins being worth $40,000 one day.

Nothing else matters.

Do it for that reason.

-B-

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Quote from: googlemaster1 on March 10, 2014, 11:34:35 AM

I sent him .1 .... will send him more later. If we don't get him at least 100 BTC I am going to be really upset with the bitcoin community. This is bigger than overstock. This is bigger than tiger direct. This is bigger than Mt. Gox. If you guys don't send him a barrage of donations we are going to be missing out on something huge. THINK about it...

I certainly am not sending not even one satoshi to the guy who is part of the 1% richest people in the world and who is responsible for centralizing information on the internet.

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Send him few Wikipedia links Tongue

about bitcoin , btc mining, exchange :p
On A serious note what a great exposure it will be for btc if Wikipedia starts accepting BTCBTC donations.
He already around 6BTC to his address and as he mentioned In his reddit post

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Obviously I'm going to cash all that out in a few days and send it onward to the Wikimedia Foundation so if you want to keep doing that, I'm ok with it.

I can see few positive signs

BittBurger

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Quote from: googlemaster1 on March 10, 2014, 11:34:35 AM

If we don't get him at least 100 BTC I am going to be really upset with the bitcoin community. This is bigger than overstock. This is bigger than tiger direct. This is bigger than Mt. Gox. If you guys don't send him a barrage of donations we are going to be missing out on something huge. THINK about it...

I agree.

I just sent 0.2 (wanted to hit about $120)

I hope everyone donates.

He's received 6 BTC so far.

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I sent him .1 .... will send him more later. If we don't get him at least 100 BTC I am going to be really upset with the bitcoin community. This is bigger than overstock. This is bigger than tiger direct. This is bigger than Mt. Gox. If you guys don't send him a barrage of donations we are going to be missing out on something huge. THINK about it...

BittBurger

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Im not very impressed with his reddit announcement.

Had he been on the ball even slightly, "Wikipedia Accepting Bitcoin" could have been a huge announcement, and boosted the price.

Instead he's all:

"I have a wallet .. uhh ... i guess ... .i mean .. i think someone sent coins to it ... so uhh ... if you want to keep doing that .... you can. Ill try to read more ... maybe figure this out .... so .. uhh yeah"

I mean, how bad was that intro?

-B-

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Quote from: BitCoinDream on March 10, 2014, 11:12:18 AM

Telegraph reports: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/10687380/Wales-inundated-with-Wikipedia-donations-after-publishing-personal-Bitcoin-address.html

Jimmy Replies: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/443031310207311872

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"A lot of people would like to see us add a banner on every page 'Now accepting Bitcoin!' Mostly I fear people are thinking more about the benefit to Bitcoin rather than the benefit to Wikipedia, which would be limited in the grand scheme of things."

Jimmy Wales should be able to see the potential of bitcoin, or perhaps he's not that much of a visionary? Where did all the ideals about openness, sharing and community go? Why does Wikipedia accept VISA, Mastercard etc, but not bitcoin?

Bitcoin is not just a donation option, it's so much more - it's a statement, changing how we do payments online.

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Telegraph reports: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/10687380/Wales-inundated-with-Wikipedia-donations-after-publishing-personal-Bitcoin-address.html

Jimmy Replies: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/443031310207311872

serje

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I'm sure some of his employes will accept BTC as payment!
I might even consider writing for wiki if he pays me in BTC!

BitCoinDream

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From the reddit page it seems Mr. Wales is worried about BTC to USD conversion to pay for staff and hosting. I'm not sure about the staffs, but for hosting he may talk to Mark Karpeles's Kallyhost Wink