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FF Los Angeles, an advertising firm, has designed an innovative bitcoin ‘Ocean Miner’ for the Tara Expéditions Foundation. Lack Of Funding Prompts Bitcoin Mining According to statistics, only a petty three percent of donations are made to charities which work toward preserving the environment. The low proportion of funds actually reaching where they are needed represents a roadblock for many…

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Identifying killer use cases for any nascent technology is often the final bridge before mass adoption. Bitcoin, for instance, has already revealed itself as an excellent store of value especially in cases of massive inflation. Similarly, Ethereum, programmable money, and smart contracts also imply an interesting future for collectibles, insurance policies, and fundraising. To learn a bit more about yet…

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Since crypto markets have turned bearish, a running joke in the community has been ‘going long on Ramen,’ referring to the fact crypto holders have seen their wealth decrease and are minimizing their expenditure by living off of the cheap and convenient dish. A new Ethereum-based cryptocurrency, Ramencoin, will utilize the potential of blockchain technology and provide a cryptocurrency dedicated…

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Ripple, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has donated $29 million through educational crowdfunding website DonorsChoose, revealed March 27. The programme shall fund 35,000 classrooms, and represents the most significant donation received by the website. In a video announcement, DonorsChoose released the news of Ripple’s donation and further added that it was enough to fund 35,000 classroom projects, which…

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has employed the blockchain technology to combat the biggest global issue – feeding the hungry. The ‘Building Blocks’ project uses Ethereum’s blockchain technology, which it considers to be a very efficient, to reach out to the needy around the globe. The WFP is known as the largest humanitarian organization in the world. WFP…

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Seed Madagascar is a non-profit charity organization that is helping to bring a new a future in Madagascar using bitcoin. The charity is dedicated to improve people’s living conditions and preserve the animals of the African island, has recently started to accept bitcoin donations. The non-profit finally realized that there’s more value in bitcoin than rather simply is a new…

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Blockchain technology has brought us new methods of empowerment and new ways to break with the traditional production and distribution of artistic content. The music industry is one of the industries that can significantly benefit from this new technology as it can give producers permanent and total control over its artistic productions. SingularDTV is a blockchain-based platform that empowers artists…

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As most readers can probably relate, the United States government takes its taxes very seriously. Perhaps a bit too seriously if you ask some disgruntled cryptocurrency investors who are going to be hit hard by the newly written U.S. tax laws. Cryptocurrency and Tax Obligations Now that these new laws are coming into effect, crypto investors have come in terms…

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Following the early success of bitcoin and the rise of the Shiba Inu dog meme in 2013, Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus created the altcoin, Dogecoin. Palmer, who at the time worked at Adobes Sydney office, purchased the dogecoin domain in a semi-joking manner. However, once the programmer Markus wrote the code, Dogecoin was launched on December 6, 2013. At…

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It seems that digital currency enthusiasts have a charitable side, as the folks at Fidelity Charitable has said the fastest growing method of donations they are receiving are through cryptocurrencies. It was on February 15, 2018, that the worldwide charity announced they got about $69 million donations in the form of digital currencies during 2017, which was by far the…

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