Juice Rap News relies heavily on viewer support and is fortunate to receive donations from people all around the world – it helps us to remain completely independent.
Most donations, however, come to us via PayPal (booo), and since the illegal banking blockade on WikiLeaks, in which PayPal still participates, we have become more and more uncomfortable with this situation. Over the past year we have also been receiving regular and sometimes rather insistent emails asking why on earth we were not accepting Bitcoin donations. (“Do you accept them?! If not, will you?” – is one of the latest).
We are excited to finally be part of it and hope to play a part in increasing its popularity amongst all those who are not yet aware of it.
It was awesome to see so many people being passionate about the value of a system which allows them to support causes they love without enriching the Reichstags of PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, etc. Whilst we can’t yet afford *not* to accept PayPal entirely, it still being the most popular form of donation, we understand that Bitcoin at least gives people the choice to use other methods to support us.
We want to thank the many people who took the time to write to us to explain how the system worked and to Amir for helping to set ourselves up. Apologies for having taken so damn long to join the Bitcoin community; had we realized just how incredibly easy it was, we would’ve done so a lot sooner. Importantly, if alternative currencies like Bitcoin can gain traction and become increasingly accepted worldwide, this could become a true source of competition for the current monopoly.
The internet and people’s passion and creativity have made possible new and ingenious systems – like Wikileaks and Bitcoin – with the potential to seriously challenge and reform the monopolies on the flow of information and wealth which have ruled the world for centuries, and which are now tightening their grip on anyone who threatens their hegemony and the political structures that prop them up.
We figured that the only way to make this alternative future a reality is to join the movement and help the Bitcoin community grow. We are excited to finally be part of it and hope to play a part in increasing its popularity amongst all those who are not yet aware of it. Thank you for all your support: we’re proud to finally be able to accept Bitcoin donations.
Giordano & Hugo ~JuiceRapNews
Juice Rap News – the news show for the Internet nation, delivering a bulletin to restore your faith in the fourth estate, make you nod your head to the beat even as you shake it in disbelief. Juice Rap News is co-written & created by Giordano Nanni and Hugo Farrant in a suburban backyard home-studio in Melbourne, Australia.
as a member of the Bitcoin community and being in an ornery mood tonite, i’m gonna say i couldn’t care less if you accept Bitcoin. its high time folks like you donate money to the Bitcoin community. it will do way more for you and humanity in the long run than our donations to you. when fiat money collapses you will be lucky to be holding Bitcoins.
Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say you’re being short-sighted there.
Easily one of the dumbest comments I’ve ever read. Don’t you realize that by accepting Bitcoin as a donation method they have, in fact, become a part of the Bitcoin cummunity? If they RECEIVE Bitcoins for donations, they will need to TRADE Bitcoins? Duh.
About time!
I was surprised they didn’t accept it sooner, and I fired off a message to them a while back because I couldn’t understand why they hadn’t jumped right in… Bitcoin just seems like a perfect fit for the Juice Media way of looking at the world.
Donated.
Rap News 6 is my favorite.
Already 100$+ in BTC donations today alone, and it’s 9:30AM in the UK and much earlier in the States. Pretty crazy
http://blockexplorer.com/address/1ESKsNEfjmCZJt3yEYjdE31L1QKqnRVcmn
I think we should make a little campaign that Avaaz accepts Bitcoins… did you already asked them whether they will do?
And one more note: Donation addresses and URIs should usually be PGP-signed so that they can be verified by everyone. It is too easy to hack a web site or MTA and replace such an address with another.
@Zafolo
I agree 100%. But I think that using PGP is a bit much for most people still. Which is kinda sad, I would love to see it used more often.
The tools for PGP are sadly lacking. I had a friend interested in encryption over Christmas, and I explained to him the concept of public-private key signing/encryption. Then we want scouring google to find PGP for Windows. 6 random downloads (that didn’t work) later, I ended up just using Ubuntu command line. Another friend had Ubuntu but we could not find a GPG tool – only some random keychain manager (what good is that!).
And then to actually do encryption, you have to save things as a text file (or pipe it in on the command line) which involves a bunch of extra steps. It should ideally be built into the browser.
We need better tools. Bitcoin is suffering from that ATM, which is something I’m trying hard to fix. But it takes time to do it right, and progress is slow.
Welcome to the revolution! Just kidding, you’re already at the front, but now you’ll have some cool, um, cash to keep you going. Congrats on a wise decision!
now this is a big +1 to them!
RAP NEWS 9 – Ron Paul V. Zeitgeist on The Economy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELEwjVRxxGE
wow up 400$ in less than 2 days. I hope other content creators online and on youtube take notice.
Kudos on using bitcoin.
I’d never heard of Juice Rap News. Now I have.
I’ve never heard of Juice Rap News before, until I hit this page from a bitcoin news link. I must say, While I generally hate rap, I watched the segment posted on this page and it’s really good. I thought it was very creative and you do end up starting to nod your head to the beat.
I’m glad to hear they are accepting bitcoins and it seems, that they are getting a pretty sizable amount so far just from the bitcoin community. I hope this spurs others into doing the same.
I think people just think it’s too hard to put into use, which was implied in the article: “had we realized just how incredibly easy it was, we would’ve done so a lot sooner.”
That statement in the article should be bolded, underlined,…etc. We need to break through that mindset.
anyways, Great job and thank you for accepting bitcoins!
i donated via bitcoin. this style of news is quite entertaining!