[Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

Wed Dec 11 23:31:04 UTC 2013

Hi Megan,

If someone wants to donate the harvestable platinum from an asteroid, would
you please make sure that an appropriately progressive excise tax is paid
to the ufohastings.com
concerns? Thanks muchly.
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> This is a reminder that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be
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> === Event Details ===
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> What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
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> Hello,
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> The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office
> hour on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 between 17:00 - 18:00 UTC on
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> === Event Details ===
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> What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
> When: December 11, 2013 (Wednesday). 1700-1800 UTC
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:58:39 +0100
> From: Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org>
> To: wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method
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> I demand that the Wikimedia Foundation start accepting the following:
>
> Litecoin
> Namecoin
> PPCoin
> Feathercoin
> Craftcoin
> Quarkcoin
> Freicoin
> Devcoin
> Terracoin
> BBQCoin
> Netcoin
>
> Actually, scrap that, I've got an even better Ponzi scheme - sorry,
> cryptocurrency: TomCoin.
>
> And, best of all, if you start taking TomCoins I'll be happy to give you
> a million of them. No, wait, how about a billion?
>
> --
> Tom Morris
> <http://tommorris.org/>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:32:10 +0000
> From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>         <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method
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> It's *completely* wrong to call these things Ponzi schemes.
>
> *Technically*, they're pump-and-dumps.
>
> - d.
>  On 11 Dec 2013 10:59, "Tom Morris" <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
>
> > I demand that the Wikimedia Foundation start accepting the following:
> >
> > Litecoin
> > Namecoin
> > PPCoin
> > Feathercoin
> > Craftcoin
> > Quarkcoin
> > Freicoin
> > Devcoin
> > Terracoin
> > BBQCoin
> > Netcoin
> >
> > Actually, scrap that, I've got an even better Ponzi scheme - sorry,
> > cryptocurrency: TomCoin.
> >
> > And, best of all, if you start taking TomCoins I'll be happy to give you
> > a million of them. No, wait, how about a billion?
> >
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> > Tom Morris
> > <http://tommorris.org/>
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