CommonCollection: Social and Technical Activism
Elisabeth Grothe-Møller is an art history student of the University of Copenhagen who wants to aid people who are excluded from valuable resources most people take for granted. So, Elisabeth and her family created a peer-to-peer online platform called CommonCollection to connect people together and change things. People can directly donate Bitcoin to....
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