TrustNodes tested out Request's donation offering: https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/04/27/request-network-partners-wikimedia-launching-beta-plus-test-run-review-digital-codable-invoices
tl;dr it's incredibly clunky, painful and disappointing and largely doesn't work. Also, it only offers Ethereum. On a related note, I notice the WMF Bitcoin gateway currently uses Coinbase's merchant option to accept cryptos and then pay the charity on dollars (so WMF never touches a crypto). Coinbase are deprecating this shortly, going to a model where the merchant has an account on Coinbase and cashing out is their own problem. What will happen to the WMF bitcoin option? https://medium.com/@coinbasecommerce/upgrading-the-merchant-experience-d97679274c71 (I'm just writing up this terrible story for my blockchain blog.) - d. On 27 April 2018 at 19:05, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 April 2018 at 17:21, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not really. At best you end up with a less efficient version of a >> downloadable database. People claiming that "blockchain technology" is >> useful for things are either cyptocurrency advocates (with the usual >> conflicts of interest) or third parties trying to be nice to them. > > > seconded. Actual blockchain expert here! As in, I wrote a book about > it that's sold well and the BBC calls me an expert now. > > Just for readers of this list, as copyright holder I hereby grant you > permission to download this copy: > > http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=41A766EE9752E757169A46C936C2EC17 > > (like I could stop anyone anyway) > > tl;dr "blockchain" anything is a boondoggle at best and horribly > damaging at worst, and you really don't want to go near this actively > terrible rubbish. > > > - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
