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Firefox Developers Stopped Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations
▲ Firefox browser
According to news on January 7, after being strongly opposed by users, Mozilla has joined the ranks of companies and organizations that have given up the use of cryptocurrency. Mozilla said on Thursday that it will temporarily stop accepting donations to the Mozilla Foundation through the BitPay platform. The Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary Mozilla developed the Firefox browser.
Last week, Mozilla tweeted on Twitter, calling for the use of cryptocurrency to donate to it, which aroused the anger of the open source community. Jamie Zawinski, the co-founder of Mozilla, Netscape, and several core Internet technologies, responded: “Everyone involved in this project should work with the Ponzi crook who incinerated the planet. I feel so ashamed of the decision.”
▲ Mozilla’s tweet calling for donations using cryptocurrency
Zavinsky’s focus is on environmental concerns caused by cryptocurrencies . In January last year, Mozilla’s “Sustainability Leader” Cathleen Berger (Cathleen Berger) released a list of climate commitments, claiming that “the most effective climate mitigation strategy is to avoid emissions.”
▲ Zavinsky, the founder of Mozilla, pushes down again
After being criticized, Mozilla said in a Twitter post that it needed to evaluate how cryptocurrency donations are consistent with their position on climate issues.
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