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Wikimedia Foundation deilir um samþykki á framlögum til dulritunargjaldmiðils vegna umhverfisáhyggju
Í kjölfar ákvörðunar Mozilla um að gera hlé á dulmálsgjöfum vegna umhverfisáhyggja hefur fjöldi samfélagsmeðlima Wikimedia Foundation lagt fram tillögu sem biður stofnunina um að hætta að taka við stafrænum gjaldeyrisframlögum. Tillagan útskýrir að dulmálsgjafir „merki um stuðning við dulritunargjaldmiðilsrýmið,“ og segir einnig að „dulkóðunargjaldmiðlar gætu ekki verið í samræmi við skuldbindingu Wikimedia Foundation til umhverfislegrar sjálfbærni.
Tillaga fullyrðir að dulmálsgjaldmiðlar gætu ekki verið í takt við Wikimedia Foundation
Members of the Wikimedia Foundation are voting on a proposal that could stop the foundation from accepting digital currencies like bitcoin and ethereum. The U.S. non-profit byrjaði að samþykkja crypto assets in 2019 via Bitpay. “We accept donations globally, and we strive to provide a large variety of donation options. It’s very important that we can get international donations processed in ways that are efficient and cost-effective,” Pats Pena, director of payments and operations at Wikimedia Foundation said at the time.
Hins vegar a tillaga submitted by the user dubbed “Gorillawarfare” claims that accepting crypto donations goes against specific Wikimedia Foundation principles. “Cryptocurrencies may not align with the Wikimedia Foundation’s commitment to environmental sustainability. Bitcoin and ethereum are the two most highly-used cryptocurrencies, and are both proof-of-work, using an enormous amount of energy,” the proposal says.
While the proposal mentions the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index it leverages a lot of the research done by the Digiconomist’s Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index. The proposal seems to have a lot of support as voting members left comments signaling affirmation. “Long overdue. Accepting cryptocurrency makes a joke out of the WMF’s commitment to environmental sustainability,” Wikimedia user Gamaliel said. However, not everyone agreed and in fact, there are a great number of people who voiced the opposite opinion. In reply to Gamaliel’s statement, for instance, one person wrote:
Ertu meðvitaður um að hið hefðbundna bankakerfi notar líka orku?
Einstaklingur fullyrðir „Hvert atriði er ósatt og/eða villandi“
There is some discussion from a few people’s submitted comments that insists Wikimedia Foundation members should realize the U.S. dollar is backed by significant amounts of carbon energy og worst of all, state-enforced violence. One person explained that each point that Gorillawarfare brought up in the proposal “is untrue and/or misleading.” For example, the point about being aligned with the crypto industry’s so-called values. The individual retorted that “this is not true, any more than accepting USD signals endorsement of the U.S. Dollar or the U.S. Government.”
In reply to the environmental concerns Gorillawarfare introduced in the proposal, the individual explained that the proposal’s point is conflated. “The proposal conflates the existence of Bitcoin to merely using it,” the Wikimedia Foundation member Awwright opined. “The proposal does not demonstrate that dropping acceptance of Bitcoin (or other cryptocurrency) will actually have an effect. As a technical matter, there is no direct relationship between making a Bitcoin transaction and energy usage (that’s significantly more than the domestic banking system).”
Umsagnaraðilar leggja áherslu á hlutdrægni sem stafar af Digiconomist
Furthermore, there are many complaints about Gorillawarfare citing the Digiconomist, as the researcher’s work has been widely dismissed over inaccuracies and extreme bias. “Digiconomist is a blog run by Alex de Vries, who is an starfsmaður of De Nederlandsche Bank NV (DNB), the central bank of the Netherlands, which is a direct competitor to Bitcoin,” one of the comments against Gorillawarfare’s proposal notes. Another individual explained that the Digiconomist’s work is ónákvæm, as many others have discovered, and the Digiconomist’s work is loaded with discrepancies. One individual wrote:
Digiconomist er ekki bara hlutdrægur og misvísandi. De Vries er sjálfgefinn, hefur ekkert ritstjórnarferli og hann hefur lélegt orðspor fyrir staðreyndaskoðun og nákvæmni.
Þegar þetta er skrifað er fjöldi einstaklinga sem eru á móti tillögunni sem Gorillawarfare lagði fram, en bróðurpartur atkvæða og athugasemda styður hugmyndina. Svo virðist sem dulmálssamfélagið og talsmenn vinnusönnunar (PoW) verði að leggja harðar að sér til að eyða goðsögnum sem eru á kreiki frá almennum fjölmiðlasérfræðingum, gamla fjármálavörðnum og launuðum stjórnarandstæðingum.
Hvað finnst þér um tillögu Wikimedia Foundation sem bendir til þess að stofnunin hætti að samþykkja dulmálseignir vegna umhverfissjónarmiða? Láttu okkur vita hvað þér finnst um þetta efni í athugasemdahlutanum hér að neðan.
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