{"id":17966,"date":"2022-01-18T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=17966"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:13:37","slug":"mozilla-pauses-acceptance-of-crypto-wikipedia-may-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/mozilla-pauses-acceptance-of-crypto-wikipedia-may-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Pauses Acceptance Of Crypto, Wikipedia May Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mozilla pauses cryptocurrency transactions due to its environmental impact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mozilla was forced to suspend the company&#8217;s announcement of cryptocurrency donations on New Year&#8217;s Eve after co-founder Jamie Zawinski tweeted his opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Echoing Zawinski&#8217;s tweet and Mozilla&#8217;s decision, Wikipedia publisher GorillaWarfare opened a request for comment on Wikimedia&#8217;s meta-wiki, urging the organization to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, individuals have expressed dissatisfaction with cryptocurrencies because of their carbon footprint and enormous energy consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A single transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain consumes the same amount of energy as the average U.S. household in 77.8 days or about two and a half months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mozilla is not the first organization to position itself against cryptocurrencies because of its environmental impact. In May 2021, Elon Musk announced Tesla&#8217;s plan to stop accepting bitcoin payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmental charity Greenpeace announced that it would no longer accept cryptocurrencies from May 2021, citing the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies as the reason for the action.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, reaad the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/mozilla-stops-accepting-cryptocurrency-wikipedia-may-be-next-are-dominos-falling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in TechRepublic.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla pauses cryptocurrency transactions due to its environmental impact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17996,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions\/17996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}