Again, I agree there are benefits, I just dispute their characterization by Wei_Dai et al. EFF is not "endorsing" Bitcoin in the sense usually meant; they're saying they'll accept donations that way. There's a huge difference between that and "Oh, but these respectable lawyer guys told this big organization it'd be okay!"
Anyway, I did join up. If you look at the map of users, I'm the singular dude in Waco.
EFF is not "endorsing" Bitcoin in the sense usually meant; they're saying they'll accept donations that way.
The Activism Director of EFF wrote a substantial blog post on Bitcoin, calling it "a step toward censorship-resistant digital currency". Earlier, they had another post listing Bitcoin as a project that "digital activists" should contribute to.
ETA: Even without these explicit endorsements, it seems obvious to me that a prominent activism/lobbying/legal organization does not just do something like accept donations in Bi...
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