{"id":139293,"date":"2022-01-07T06:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=139293"},"modified":"2023-06-22T08:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:16:41","slug":"mozilla-pulls-crypto-donations-after-backlash-from-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/mozilla-pulls-crypto-donations-after-backlash-from-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Pulls Crypto Donations After Backlash From Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Following a wave of criticism from the open source community this week, Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mozilla\/status\/1479143340159422468?s=21\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0that it had suspended accepting cryptocurrency donations, citing an &#8220;important discussion&#8221; about the environmental impact of digital assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last week, we tweeted a reminder that Mozilla accepts cryptocurrency donations. This led to an important discussion about cryptocurrency\u2019s environmental impact. We\u2019re listening, and taking action. 1\/4<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mozilla (@mozilla) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mozilla\/status\/1479143340159422468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Last week, we tweeted a reminder that Mozilla accepts cryptocurrency donations. &#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span>This led to a discussion about the negative impact of cryptocurrency on the environment.\u00a0<\/span><span>We listen and take action, \u201dMozilla said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Mozilla said it will continue to explore decentralized web technologies, but will only renew cryptocurrency donations if it is consistent with their climate goals.\u00a0In the spirit of open source, Mozilla will be transparent in the review process and share constant updates, it said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>As of today, we are reviewing whether our current crypto donation policy is in line with our climate goals.\u00a0We are currently conducting an analysis, during which we will suspend the possibility of donating in cryptocurrency.\u00a0We will share the results regularly as we go along with our research, Mozilla added.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a wave of criticism from the open source community this week, Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser,\u00a0announced\u00a0that it had suspended accepting cryptocurrency donations, citing an &#8220;important discussion&#8221; about the environmental impact of digital assets. Last week, we tweeted a reminder that Mozilla accepts cryptocurrency donations. This led to an important discussion about [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/mozilla-pulls-crypto-donations-after-backlash-from-users\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":139294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-139293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}