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Wikimedia Foundation diskutē par kriptovalūtas ziedojumu pieņemšanu saistībā ar vides problēmām
Pēc Mozilla lēmuma apturēt kriptovalūtu ziedojumus vides apsvērumu dēļ, vairāki Wikimedia Foundation kopienas locekļi ir iesnieguši priekšlikumu, kas lūdz fondu pārtraukt digitālās valūtas ziedojumu pieņemšanu. Priekšlikumā paskaidrots, ka kriptovalūtu ziedojumi “signalizē [par] apstiprinājumu kriptovalūtu telpai”, kā arī teikts, ka “kriptovalūtas var neatbilst Wikimedia Foundation apņemšanās nodrošināt vides ilgtspējību”.
Priekšlikums apgalvo, ka kriptovalūtas var neatbilst 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 sāka pieņemt 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.
Tomēr, priekšlikums 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:
Vai jūs zināt, ka tradicionālā banku sistēma arī izmanto enerģiju?
Persona uzstāj, ka “katrs punkts ir nepatiess un/vai maldinošs”
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 un 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).”
Komentētāji izceļ aizspriedumus, kas izriet no 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 darbinieks 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 neprecīza, as many others have discovered, and the Digiconomist’s work is loaded with discrepancies. One individual wrote:
Digiekonomists nav tikai neobjektīvs un pretrunīgs. De Vries ir pašpublicēts, viņam nav redakcionālas pārskatīšanas procesa, un viņam ir slikta reputācija attiecībā uz faktu pārbaudi un precizitāti.
Rakstīšanas laikā ir neskaitāmas personas, kas ir pret Gorillawarfare iesniegto priekšlikumu, taču lielākā daļa balsu un komentāru atbalsta šo ideju. Šķiet, ka kriptovalūtu kopienai un darba pierādījuma (PoW) atbalstītājiem ir vairāk jāstrādā, lai kliedētu mītus, kas cirkulē no galveno mediju ekspertiem, vecās finanšu gvardes un algotiem opozīcijas pētniekiem.
Ko jūs domājat par Wikimedia Foundation priekšlikumu, kas ierosina fondam pārtraukt kriptovalūtu pieņemšanu vides apsvērumu dēļ? Paziņojiet mums, ko jūs domājat par šo tēmu tālāk sniegtajā komentāru sadaļā.
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