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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: The EFF's damage to Bitcoin continues.
by
Stephen Gornick
on 04/10/2012, 06:33:21 UTC
It's one thing for the EFF not to accept Bitcoin for it's own reasons specific to legal advocacy - but from the above, we see that their about-face and public statements continue to damage Bitcoin's reputation in the non-profit sphere.

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The @EFF now accepts donations with Stripe: https://supporters.eff.org/donate
- http://twitter.com/stripe/status/253193235894247424

Which shows that argument 3 is bullshit:

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3.   People were misconstruing our acceptance of Bitcoins as an endorsement of Bitcoin. We were concerned that some people may have participated in the Bitcoin project specifically because EFF accepted Bitcoins, and perhaps they therefore believed the investment in Bitcoins was secure and risk-free. While we’ve been following the Bitcoin movement with a great degree of interest, EFF has never endorsed Bitcoin. In fact, we generally don’t endorse any type of product or service – and Bitcoin is no exception.

 - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin