Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de> wrote:
> Hi.

Hello,

> Do you have details?
> I could only find https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf which
> does not indicate that "virtual currency" should be treated differently
> than "real currency".
> But I wonder why you think any of this is applicable at all, because
> the Foundation neither accepts, holds, nor spends any
> bitcoins.  The foundation receives USD from Bitpay.

The issue has nothing to do with currencies. The problem is that as a
501(c)(3) we need to know where our donations come from, and bitcoin's
anonymity prevents us from knowing that.

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director