Hi, Santiago Vila: > To me, it's sad to see that we seem to be officially endorsing Bitcoin > without any debate at all. If we accept Bitcoin, we should probably > accept competing so-called-cryptocurrencies as well. Should Debian > favour one cryptocurrency over the others? > No, but it's the most widely used one, and setting up eWallets for yet another cryptocurrency is a hassle.
In any case, I'm in favor of accepting Bitcoins (and whatever else somebody can be bothered to set up a donation address for) – but for our purposes they should be considered a fancy way to exchange money, not money or something else "valuable" in and of themselves, and converted to $/€ as soon as we get them. -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140827063451.gb21...@smurf.noris.de
