{"id":36868,"date":"2021-02-23T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T08:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36868"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:32:21","slug":"the-russian-orthodox-church-will-not-accept-bitcoin-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/the-russian-orthodox-church-will-not-accept-bitcoin-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Orthodox Church will not accept Bitcoin donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) does not plan to create its own digital currency for donations, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/jesus-portal.ru\/life\/video\/live\/pryamaya-liniya-s-mitropolitom-ilarionom-22-02-2021\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also noted that the ROC does not intend to accept donations in Bitcoin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As reported, many already collect donations in cryptocurrencies. In 2018 the London Mosque<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announced the start of fundraising in digital currencies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donations are also being attracted in this manner by various organisations. Last year the Human Rights Foundation and the Salvation Army announced they would begin accepting Bitcoin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February 2021, a hospital in the United States received <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-hospital-receives-800000-in-bitcoin-donations\">$800 000 in Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) does not plan to create its own digital currency for donations, said Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate&#8217;s Department for External Church Relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-36868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-charity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36870,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868\/revisions\/36870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}