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When a mosque in East London announced in May that it would become the first in the UK to accept donations by cryptocurrency, most of the congregation thought it was a stunt to catch their attention during Ramadan.
But Masjid Ramadan, or Shacklewell Lane Mosque, collected, £13,983 from cryptocurrency donations in a month – and just £3,460 from regular cash donations.
The Hackney mosque’s chairman, Erkin Guney, told i: “Many people at the mosque were initially sceptical about us accepting this new money, but the fact we received four times more in cryptocurrency donations shows how important it is to be open to these new digital currencies.”