The taz wants bitcoins
Hoppla: For two days you have also been able to support the taz with bitcoins. The Berliner Zeitung chose a new way a few years ago to move its readers more aggressively: Before reading an article, you have to click on whether you pay or not. Pay choice calls the taz of this model, and the reports report it to the newspaper quite successfully a monthly tip in the five -digit range into the cash register. Now a whopping 11 bitcoins have moved up in a few days. By the way, the taz accepts the virtual coins in a refreshingly native way.
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You cannot avoid registering with easy concern that the information itself is blooming and thriving on steroids like weeds, but professional journalism is more likely. If everything is in vain and the editors and authors are only paid for by the narrow advertising argices, they hardly have time to research thoroughly and formulate eloquently before spinning out the next article that hopefully makes as many clicks as possible. Therefore, it is not only in the interests of individual groups of people with exotic professions such as reporters or editors, but decisive for a democratic future of the well -informed and critical public that the publishers and publicists are persuaded to send their readers a financial contribution to them.
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The taz drives quite well to persuade its readers to donate, which may be due to the fact that the newspaper, as a relevant voice of a rather homogeneous audience in the green-liberal-link, has a penchant for politically correct luxury. The often well -heeled readers just love their irreplaceable taz. The “Pay Choice” has been aggressively pretending to pay something since 2011 and has been bricking up five -digit amounts every month, which, according to the editors, is by no means sufficient to do taz.de to operate, but has become an important pillar of financing.
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This month the taz should be happy about a pretty investment rain. Readers have had the opportunity to donate bitcoins for two days, and more than 11 bitcoins have already been troubled. So almost 5.000 euros. Operatively, the newspaper goes the easiest way: it shows an address including QR code. What more do you need?
The advantage for the taz is that Bitcoins can be donated anonymously and without registration. The newspaper, pleasantly, refrains from embedding the Bitcoin acceptance in any ideological contexts or political car castles, but takes it as what it is: another payment option that has its own advantages and disadvantages and possibly motivates more people to donate. For me personally, Bitcoins are the only option to send taz a small contribution when I read again in the charming column of the war reporter. Because when I open an article, I want to read and not log in to my online bank. Therefore, the payment should go as soon as possible.
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It is a shame, however, that the option of paying with bitcoins will not be displayed if the PAY choice pushes in front of an article.