American Red Cross to Accept Bitcoin Donations
One of the many measures of bitcoin's health over the past eighteen months has been just how many non-profit organizations accept donations of the digital currency. To date, there's been quite a few. And this week, we've learned that yet another major humanitarian organization is embracing bitcoin to support their mission. They're the American Red Cross, and Atlanta-based BitPay is giving them a helping hand by hosting a bitcoin donation page, in addition to processing all donations without fees (BitPay's services are free for non-profits). "Introducing the American Red Cross to the....
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The American Red Cross has announced that it will now accept bitcoin through a partnership with BitPay. Founded in 1881, the American Red Cross is the official US affiliate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. The humanitarian organisation provides disaster relief and emergency assistance in the US and posted total operating revenues and expenses of $3.4bn for its fiscal year 2013. In a statement, BitPay's non-profit outreach leader Elizabeth Ploshay voiced her belief that the partnership would help showcase the generosity of bitcoin consumers to yet another charitable....
For the philanthropist inside you, there is great news! Prominent charities running across the globe have now started receiving donations in the digital currency Bitcoin. Among the leading charities that have started embracing Bitcoin as a mode of soliciting funding are Save the Children, Greenpeace and American Red Cross. Ettore Rossetti, Director, Social Media and Digital Marketing at Save the Children said, "There is a sense that this is growing in acceptance in the nonprofit sector." Save the Children became a beneficiary of Bitcoin donations in fall 2013 and has since raised nearly....
During the first week of January, the software community Mozilla revealed it was pausing cryptocurrency donations after citing environmental concerns. 14 weeks later, Mozilla decided last week it will accept crypto donations again, but only from digital assets that leverage a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus model.
Mozilla Plans to Accept PoS Crypto Assets Only, Executive Says PoW Cryptos ‘Significantly Increase Our GHG Footprint’
On April 7, Mark Surman, the executive director at the Mozilla Foundation, published an update about the software community pausing crypto....
The NGO will accept bitcoin donations both on-chain and through the Lightning Network leveraging OpenNode.