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I think, it's blown way out of proportion, like most criticisms of Mozilla are.
It's not like they're actually endorsing cryptocurrency, it's just their usual non-profit call for "if you happen to have too much money, please gib money".
Besides, Mozilla is a privacy-adjacent organisation. Cryptocurrency is horseshit for the environment, but it is a useful tool for anonymization.
And I have a feeling that people wanting to make a donation to Mozilla are largely not going to be the egoistic wealth chasers, but rather privacy-minded people that would prefer to stay anonymous as much as possible. I don't think chewing those people up over their environmental impact is good.
Crypto is literally a public ledger, as anti-privacy friendly as you can be. Almost exchange in almost every country requires an insane amount of data before it lets you trade, so they can easily follow your transactions around the blockchain. P2P trading in the US, Canada and other modern countries requires the seller collects your ID as well.
Some cryptocurrencies like Monero are private and anonymous