The Bitcoin community has been contributing to a crowdfunding campaign to restore the famous Notre-Dame de Paris after it suffered a catastrophic fire.
Struck by the potential success of the new Lightning network protocol, Abril created Tippin.me three months ago as a way to enable bitcoin Lightning micropayments without a user having to set up node.
The piece-by-piece dismantling of the bolivars by those choosing to donate crypto is meant to represent a new beginning made possible by a new form of money not controlled by any one authority.
The early Bitcoin community in San Francisco was originally comprised of revolutionaries: Individuals who believed in the freedom and opportunity that a permissionless distributed system would bring the world.
"If we don’t finish freeing ourselves with the open, permissionless, decentralized blockchain, they are going to imprison us with the closed, permissioned, centralized blockchain," says Nick Spanos.
"Over the last several weeks, I’ve seen a surprising number of editorials claiming that blockchain is a failed experiment. I want to reassure you that the criticisms expressed in these articles are misguided."
The program will create an anonymous tip line as well as a whistleblower reward mechanism to deal with the problem of cryptocurrency scammers and hackers.
