Virtual Landowners Donate With a Decentralized Charity
Next Earth, the NFT-based replica of Earth, announced that over $64,000 in proceeds from the sale of its virtual land will be donated to four environmental charities. The Ocean Cleanup, SEE Turtles, Kiss the Ground, and Amazon Watch will each receive funds allocated by a community-based vote. The allocation of funds across these four charities took place in a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), which enables Next Earth’s community to decide how to allocate funds raised from virtual real estate sales. DAOs are a new form of governance structure where token holders can vote for the....
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Next Earth, a replica of Earth built on the blockchain, announced that it has donated 330 BNB (around $204,000 USD) to environmental causes from contributions made in November. The donation was made via a voting DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization), in which landowners vote on which charities to donate to. The percentage of each vote corresponds to the percentage of funds that the charity will get. The recipients of Next Earth’s November donation were Amazon Watch, Kiss the Ground, SEE Turtles, and The Ocean Cleanup. The Ocean Cleanup won the most votes, receiving 493 votes....
PRESS RELEASE. Charitable company MUNCH will lead a philanthropic effort called Charity Circle, which will donate to charitable global causes using ETH. 13th August 2021, London, UK — Leading DeFi charity platform MUNCH has announced ‘Charity Circle’ – a philanthropic effort led by Munch to encourage DeFi projects to donate to charitable causes through sending Ethereum to Munch’s smart contract, Charity Circle will trustlessly and automatically donate to the current charity selected by the Munch community. MUNCH and Partnerships MUNCH is a DeFi cryptocurrency....
5 March 2016 – You can now donate your Bitcoin to charity by playing Pokemon. Strange as it sounds, it’s been made possible by Jordan Hall, Rapid Web developer, using popular streaming site Twitch.tv. The stream emulates the wildly successful Twitch Plays Pokemon, with a key difference. You need bitcoin to control the character’s in-game actions. This is achieved by linking incoming transactions of an address to a Game Boy input – you donate any amount to the address corresponding to the input, and the character acts according to each donation. QR codes are provided to make the process....
Dmitry Murashchik is faced with quite the problem. He's sitting on more than $30,000 (US) in bitcoins, just waiting to dole them out, but everyone thinks he's a snake-oil salesman. Perhaps it's because he's dealing in bitcoins, and public perception of the crytpocurrency is still shaky. Or perhaps it just sounds too good to be true. Murashchik is the treasurer for Bitcoin100, an organization dating back to November 2011 that aims to donate $1,000 worth of bitcoins to various charities. As a volunteer - all members of the group are - he's tasked with a number of responsibilities, from....
Thanks to support from Nexo, viewers were able to donate in cryptocurrency to the "ColorTheSpectrum" live stream last week. On April 30, a virtual benefit co-hosted by American TV star Jimmy Kimmel and NASA engineer-turned-YouTuber Mark Rober raised over $3 million in donations to support NEXT for AUTISM, a charity dedicated to addressing the needs of people with autism and their families across the United States. The interactive livestream featured a wide range of well-known entertainers, comedians, musicians, and athletes, among them Jon Stewart, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler....