Mozilla Attempts to Appease its Environmentally-conscious Community by Accepting PoS Crypto Donations Again
by Wieke Beenen There has been a lot of talk about Mozilla this week after the company decided to begin accepting PoS crypto again after an outcry against Bitcoin forced it to suspend donations earlier this year. The Mozilla Foundation had put cryptocurrency donations on hold in January following a community backlash sparked by trenchant criticism from co-founder Jamie Zawinski who openly said he wasn’t agreeing with the evironmental impact of crypto, he said: “Everyone involved in the project should be witheringly ashamed of this decision to partner with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters”. After this statement Mozilla announced it had paused crypto donations due to the online discussion around crypto’s environmental…