From the article<p>> In the last financial year the most used cryptocurrency was Bitcoin. We have never held cryptocurrency, and spot-convert donations daily into fiat currency (USD), which doesn’t have a significant environmental impact.<p>Every Proof-of-Work system consumes energy, whether you make transactions on them or not (a graveyard of barely used POW blockchain systems that are all still being mined prove this).<p>So really, this is just symbolism politics...
> The Wikimedia Foundation currently accepts cryptocurrency donations in currencies including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum, as explained on the "Other ways to give" page. I propose that we stop accepting cryptocurrency donations.<p>Here we go again with Bitcoin, PoW === All cryptocurrencies.<p>So all cryptocurrencies are Proof-of-Work and non-Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies don't exist today? Perhaps XRP, Nano, Stellar, Solana, Algorand, and Hedera are all destroying the environment and are slow for payments?<p>I mean I don't even like the hype around cryptocurrencies, but the main reasons presented by this RFC for not using them are quite weak and completely outdated. Yawn.