you can't donate cryptocurrency to wikimedia without IDing yourself.
@sneak they are registered on Brave creators program. Brave users can donate all the BAT they receive without KYC
@raphael anyone who touches that scammy nonsense is a fool. (also, brave is founded and run by an anti-gay-rights bigot, so i opt out of using anything they've ever touched.)
@sneak those scammy fools let you donate to Wikimedia without id'ing yourself, using erc20 shitcoins that can be traded for greenbacks, just like wikimedia would trade the "hard sound money" of BTC.
But if you don't want to get off the high horse, it's okay.
@raphael is it too hard for them to just publish a btc address? making donors jump through uniswap hoops seems silly to me, especially considering they already take btc (via bitpay).
@sneak you need to take this complaint to your representative to get less draconian KYC/AML laws. "Pure BTC" can not be accepted by wikimedia if they don't know who is behind the transaction, while for BAT they can just point to the wallet custodian (in this case, Uphold Inc)
@sneak I am surprised if this is true, as it can be a way for money laundering.
If it *is* true, though... the issue is not even with crypto, just Wikimedia doing what every shady NGO does: treat every donor as a potential sucker that can be nagged endlessly to be milked of a couple bucks every year. I made the mistake of donating to them via SEPA, I think they only stopped asking for more after 3 years.
With the Brave program, they don't get to know me.