Just before New Year’s, Mozilla posted a tweet talking about how they’re going to accept cryptocurrency as a donation method, and a lot of people in the replies are very upset about it. Jamie Zawinski, a Mozilla founder, has also directly responded to it.
What’s your thoughts on this?
Wayback Machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220105052253/https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1476951030638260225
Update: https://lemmy.ml/post/140209
Well, the currency monopoly and the traceability of everything strengthens the state and corporations too much. This harms peripheral communities more than the rich…
There is no such thing as balanced capitalism. It is not possible for the masses to have the same power as corporations, magnates and the capitalist state. This is all utopian or cynical.