Wikipedia co-founder says that involving crypto with the platform is insane

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, recently attended the CoinGeek Conference in London. During the conference, Wales spoke about cryptocurrencies, stating that they do not have a single practical use-case that would convince him that they could contribute to Wikipedia in any way.

Quite the opposite, in fact, he is concerned
that crypto would damage the way that the platform has been operating for all
the years since its creation.

Wales said that he did dedicate some serious
thought to the idea, and he tried to distinguish between the ideological and
practical nature of cryptos. However, his conclusions did not change. He
already declined numerous proposals from crypto supporters and advocates who
wanted him to consider the possibility of rewarding content creations through
microtransactions.

He repeated that it would be a bad idea, and
that would not actually work. He said taking something that is a bad idea and
putting it on the blockchain does not make it a good idea….