Cryptocurrency CEO Donated Second-Largest Amount to Joe Biden’s Campaign

The “relative newcomer” to politics joined other major CEO donors to the Democratic candidate. Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX, donated $5.2 million to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.As the Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 28, Biden’s presidential campaign received a total of $79.5 million from the top 100 donors describing themselves as CEOs. Bankman-Fried is reportedly the second-largest “CEO-contributor” to the campaign after Michael Bloomberg, a co-founder of the eponymous financial and media company, who donated $56....

Australian bitcoin payments startup BitPOS is teaming up with the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) to help save Africa's endangered wildlife from hunters. It's the latest campaign aiming to demonstrate how bitcoin companies can raise money for a cause and give digital currency a friendlier public face in the process. A similar campaign by South African exchange iceCUBED, started last month, has already raised over 2.4 BTC for a Botswana children's charity, and is ongoing. Anti-Poaching Campaign. So far, the partnership between BitPOS and the IAPF has been a success, with....

Ukraine donation numbers have soared following the invasion by Russia. The country which had turned to crypto as a way to receive support from around the globe has found it to be one of its most efficient avenues since then. The amount of crypto donated grew rapidly as prominent figures and entities such as Polkadot […]

The D.C.-based advocacy group just raised millions for its ongoing research and lobbying efforts. Here’s how the numbers broke down. 2021 is shaping up to be a generous year for cryptocurrency donations. On Wednesday, Coin Center, the leading cryptocurrency nonprofit in Washington, D.C., announced that it had raised millions in additional funding from high-profile names in the crypto industry. Jerry Brito, Coin Center’s executive director, tweeted that his organization had received enough donations to claim the $1 million in matched contributions from Grayscale Investments, the world’s....

The founder of Moolah, a cryptographic payment platform, yesterday donated too much moolah (sorry) to a dogecoin fundraising campaign. Alex Green had intended to give 2 million dogecoin to support the reddit community's effort to put a dogecoin car in NASCAR. By chance he typed an extra zero, raising the amount to 20 million dogecoin - or $15,000. However, Green is standing by his generous donation and took to reddit to raise the stakes even higher: Was meant to be 2M.... silly keyboard. I will stand by my mistake however! Anybody care to match me? The first person to match at least 10%....