THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin proponents were captivated to hearthat the Baptize Projectrecently accustomed an bearding donation of 38 bitcoins account 23000 USD at columnist time The alms doesnt apperceive who beatific the funds but they are actual beholden as the money will go appear accouterment apple-pie baptize and sanitation accessories to an absolute school
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Water Project Receives 38 BTC Donation
The Baptize Project is a able-bodied accepted charitable organization in the Bitcoin community. Local teams body baptize wells, dams, and bounce protections in Kenya, Uganda and Sierra Leone. The alms got cogent absorption back BitGive helped them accession funds to body a baptize able-bodied in Western Kenya.
The able-bodied gave apple-pie baptize to the Shisango Girls’ Secondary School and a association of over 500 people. BitGive published a short 3-minute video of how the activity fabricated a aberration with advice from the Bitcoin community.
The accumulation accustomed its better donation to date on September 13. An bearding giver sent 38 bitcoins over two transactions during the night.
The Water Project organizers thanked the donor on Reddit, stating:
Bitcoin Community Has Supported 5 Water Project Missions
The Water Project additionally abundant that the Bitcoin community has adjourned bristles projects over the accomplished brace of years. Some of the donations accept been anonymous, and others were not. The alms says it’s actual beholden for the contempo donation, and for all the ability they accept accustomed — no amount their size.
The alms says they are abundantly beholden for accepting the Bitcoin association on their ancillary and that “every BTC provides apple-pie water.”
Soon, the organization will advertise through their Bitcoin Donation Page how they will absorb the funds. The Baptize Project says best they will best acceptable use the donation for a able-bodied baptize mission in Sierra Leone. The accumulation will assignment with BitGive’s transparency project to give an auditable annual of donations received.
Community Shows That Bitcoin Is a True Humanitarian Currency
When the Bitcoin association heard about the accidental donation, abounding bidding their excitement.
One Redditor writes:
The allowance of 38 bitcoins is absolutely the acceptable donation. No one knows if the donor will acknowledge themselves, but best of the association and the Water Project organizers apperceive it absolutely doesn’t matter. Anonymous donations such as this one are aloof one of Bitcoin’s key altruistic strengths.
What do you anticipate about the Water Project accepting a acceptable donation of $23,000 in Bitcoin? Let us apperceive in the comments below.
Source: Reddit
Images via the Water Project.
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