[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Cryptocurrencies with payment tag

[Paul Johnson]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 6:18 AM Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> I am not in favour of supporting any cryptocurrency payment information
> in OSM.
>
> More than once in the past, OSM has been abused as a marketing tool by
> people whose only "mission" it was to push awareness of some random
> cryptocurrency. These are not people who want to improve OSM; these are
> fans of one cryptocurrency or another in the best of cases, and more
> often than not people who have invested in these currencies and are
> hoping to get a good return on their investment.
>

Seconded, with the additional note that it's effectively somewhere between
scrip and a pyramid scheme at worst, and a massive environmental and social
disaster (see El Salvador) by best.
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