Otoh,
Just want to be clear. Have we really persuaded the British Museum to accept Bitcoin payments, without discussion or controversy?
Is it safe to donate? Or is it likely that donations can be appropriated by staff or others?
Lets donate!! We should email them once a year or so saying what the current value of their donation sum is and how they could take it.
Being a Londoner and therefore I might donote to the British museum anyway, I think this is amazing.
Actually, I think this is the most amazing aspect of Casacaus coins, with no computer in sight, you can give one to somebody, and tell them the bitcoin address, and suddenly they are in the business of receiving bitcoin payments.
The British Museum is a huge organisation, and if it is really now accepting Bitcoin donations.... wow!
Which of the addresses Otoh gives should we use ?
Casascius himself doesn't think at the moment that it's a good idea to send funds to the coins that they have
(link) but personally I think it's a very good thing, it's how bitcoins work & they have plenty of silver & gold moneys in that exhibition that go up & down in value with the markets so why should it be a problem, the bitcoin value in fiat is going to change in any case, they also collect anonymous cash from visitors in all sorts of different fiat that ppl choose to drop in to their collection boxes - some quite high denomination notes/bills, I'd thought of dropping a Cas bitcoin in but this is much better. I imagine they will just let the coin increase in value unless some anon eccentric millionaire drops a few 100k coins on it in which case they'll probably cash it out & replace it with one of their other ones and issue a news release to say thanks very much bitcoins ftw!
So in answer, no we haven't officially persuaded them to accept bitcoin donations, but their exhibit coin address & the others they have they themselves have made public & that allows anyone to send coins to it if they so choose - it's how bitcoin works & as such they should appreciate it's doing exactly what it's meant to & perhaps this will encourage them to actually turn it in to an official funding source. Re security - it's in an exhibition room with really high value PM exhibits & they know how to look after their artifacts so I doubt anyone with access would peel it or switch it for another.
I'd use the one that they have on display showing the FirstBits: 1NyVMo79 for 1NyVMo79Vanhbu92MpPQgCbu9MDV5a4NhW
