TrustNodes tested out Request's donation offering:
https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/04/27/request-network-partners-wikimedia-lau...
tl;dr it's incredibly clunky, painful and disappointing and largely doesn't work. Also, it only offers Ethereum.
On a related note, I notice the WMF Bitcoin gateway currently uses Coinbase's merchant option to accept cryptos and then pay the charity on dollars (so WMF never touches a crypto). Coinbase are deprecating this shortly, going to a model where the merchant has an account on Coinbase and cashing out is their own problem. What will happen to the WMF bitcoin option? https://medium.com/@coinbasecommerce/upgrading-the-merchant-experience-d9767...
(I'm just writing up this terrible story for my blockchain blog.)
- d.
On 27 April 2018 at 19:05, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 April 2018 at 17:21, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Not really. At best you end up with a less efficient version of a downloadable database. People claiming that "blockchain technology" is useful for things are either cyptocurrency advocates (with the usual conflicts of interest) or third parties trying to be nice to them.
seconded. Actual blockchain expert here! As in, I wrote a book about it that's sold well and the BBC calls me an expert now.
Just for readers of this list, as copyright holder I hereby grant you permission to download this copy:
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=41A766EE9752E757169A46C936C2EC17
(like I could stop anyone anyway)
tl;dr "blockchain" anything is a boondoggle at best and horribly damaging at worst, and you really don't want to go near this actively terrible rubbish.
- d.