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- A Mozilla cofounder condemned the firm’s move to accept cryptocurrency donations in a tweet Monday.
- Jamie Zawinski said it should be ashamed to partner with “planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters.”
- Some critics say the crypto world resembles Ponzi schemes and has a negative environmental impact.
The Mozilla Foundation, the entity that oversees the Mozilla Firefox internet browser, is now accepting donations in cryptocurrency.
One of the browser’s founders is not happy about it.
The company tweeted on Dec. 31: “Dabble in @dogecoin? HODLing some #Bitcoin & Ethereum? We’re using @BitPay to accept donations in #cryptocurrency.”
Jamie “jwz” Zawinski, who helped build the Mozilla Project that was released in 2002, tweeted in response that he’s “here to say fuck you and fuck this.”
“Everyone involved in the project should be witheringly ashamed of this decision to partner with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters,” he said.
—j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) January 3, 2022
Zawinski did not immediately respond to questions about his comments.
Concerns around cryptocurrency’s energy use and environmental impact have grown louder in recent years. Bitcoin mining, for example, eats up about 0.5% of the world’s energy, about seven times more than Google consumes each year, per a September…
