Hello,
I'm but a simple member of Wikimedia France, but I trust the Post Scriptum by Nadine was clear on the matter : "no other cryptocurrency donations project is planned". And yes, I believe that includes Foldingcoin. Personally, I'm fond of Folding@Home, I've even given more than my fair share of processing time to the project some time ago ; but I don't need to receive hard cash in return - especially when it's neither hard nor cash. Whether you like it or not, it does waste electricity when an alternative exists : the old way of having people pay dimes for a wee bit of electricity to calculate protein folding instead of the new way of performing copious calculations for the blockchain and a few cheap protein foldings on the side. It doesn't matter what the end goal is, even as laudable as F@H : a blockchain is and always will be calculation-expensive, thus a waste of electricity, by its very design. And Foldingcoin still relies on it. Please don't be "that guy", and stick to F@H rather than push for FLDC.
Roger / Alphos
2018-05-28 17:23 GMT+02:00 James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com:
Hi Nadine, thank you for this update.
Does the French Chapter have a position on replacing bitcoin mining with foldingcoin (http://foldingcoin.net)? I hope that all Wikimedians will oppose the wasteful consumption of electricity when useful alternatives exist.
Best regards, Jim
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Nadine Le Lirzin nlelirzin@wikimedia.fr wrote:
Hi all,
Update on the topic.
Since Request Network were so slow and reluctant to change their delusive communication into a fair and clean information, Wikimédia France broke
the
agreement with them. Thus, this partnership is over.
We deleted our blog post about it. And we keep on trying to obtain the
same
from Request Network (who are turning a deaf ear until now).
Once again, sorry for the noise and thanks for alerting us,
Nadine Le Lirzin *Secrétaire du conseil d'administration* *Wikimédia France*
*Post-scriptum:* no other cryptocurrency donations project is planned ^^'
2018-04-28 17:12 GMT+02:00 Nadine Le Lirzin nlelirzin@wikimedia.fr:
Hi all,
First of all, thanks for reporting the issue. Impressive reactivity :)
Then, sorry for the intempestive and unwelcome communication about this local partnership. The agreement is quite clear, it has been
established by
Wikimédia France (of course *not* in name of Wikimedia Foundation) and our partners are obviously *not allowed* to use any of Wikimedia
projects
marks.
Today, Request Network updated their posts to clarify things and suppressed Wikipedia logo from their communication messages : — https://www.reddit.com/r/RequestNetwork/comments/8firkq/up date_to_clarify_wikimedia_france_partnership/ — https://blog.request.network/request-network-project- update-april-27th-2018-partnership-with-wikimedia- woocommerce-plugin-c598372e9b58
We updated our blog post as well, with an introductive warning : — https://www.wikimedia.fr/2018/04/27/wikimedia-france-annon ce-partenariat-fondation-request-network-accepter-donations- crypto-monnaies/
After the week-end and labor day (1 May), we are expecting that all occurrences of this misunderstanding have disappeared.
Nadine Le Lirzin
*Secretary of the Board* *Wikimédia France *
2018-04-27 16:23 GMT+02:00 Devouard (gmail) fdevouard@gmail.com:
Definitly confusing.
See also this : https://blog.request.network/r equest-network-project-update-april-27th-2018-partnership-wi th-wikimedia-woocommerce-plugin-c598372e9b58
Florence
Le 27/04/2018 à 15:49, geni a écrit :
According to their twitter feed they have announced a partnership with something called the "Request Network" for cryptocurrency donations. Also this article here
https://www.wikimedia.fr/2018/04/27/wikimedia-france-annonce -partenariat-fondation-request-network-accepter-donations-cr ypto-monnaies/
Ok. I don't approve but I'm not french so not its not an area where I can reasonably expect anyone to pay any attention to my opinions.
What concerns me is that they have retweeted something claiming the partnership is with the wikimedia foundation rather than just wikimedia france:
https://twitter.com/wikimedia_fr?lang=en
Is some form of clarification possible?
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