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Bifröst: A New Blockchain-Based Effort to Deliver Foreign Aid Payments

ConsenSys Social Impact has joined MakerDAO and Dether to launch Bifröst, a crypto-to-fiat payment system built to expedite the delivery of cash donations to aid groups in conflict areas.

UNICEF’s “Hope Page” Mines Cryptocurrency Through Visitors’ Computers

The philanthropic organization has now created the “Hope Page,” which allows users to donate through cryptocurrency mined on their computers.

“Real Users”: Bitcoin Donations Helped These Earthquake Survivors Recover

This is the second in a series by Aaron van Wirdum focusing on real people who use cryptocurrencies. Read about his earlier experiences in...

Our Top 5 Bitcoin “Good News” Stories of 2017

2017 has been a banner year for bitcoin and blockchain technology.

Op Ed: The Blockchain Education Network $100,000 Challenge

Blockchain technology, as an overarching industry, has developed leaps and bounds from its geeky, white, cypher-punk roots of yore. (“Yore” being 2015, as it...

Meet “Pine,” the Bitcoin Philanthropist Who Set Up the $85 Million Pineapple Fund

Yesterday, one post set the Bitcoin subreddit on fire: An anonymous Bitcoiner who goes by the name of “Pine” announced that they are establishing...

ixo Foundation: A Blockchain-Based Response to the UN’s Call for a Data Revolution

Every year, over one trillion dollars is spent on impact projects supporting the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs), which aim to end...

Mexican Bitcoin Exchange Bitso Aids Red Cross Earthquake Relief Efforts

Bitso, a cryptocurrency exchange in Mexico, has continues its campaign to aid the victims of the recent earthquake in Mexico.A few days ago, Bitso...

Using Blockchain, IoT to Boost Meal Programs for Schoolchildren

India, the second-most populous country in the world with over 1.2 billion people, boasts one of the fastest-growing economies bolstered by the youngest workforce...

Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology: The Future of Philanthropy

Charities supporting children’s causes, victims of humanitarian disasters, the environment, scientific research or the arts raise millions of dollars in donations each year. Yet,...
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