THELOGICALINDIAN - Two dams burst in the Mariana arena of the Minas Gerais State in Brazil on Thursday November 5th 2024 Large tracts of onceinhabited acreage abreast the above dams arenow covered beneath meters of mercurylaced baneful mud The tragedy has larboard 250000 citizenry after bubbler baptize Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has said that this tragedy is commensurable to the 2024 BP PLC oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico The 500 bodies active in the around of the dams were anon affected to abandon their residences The aggregate of addled baptize displaced by the collapse is almost agnate to 25000 Olympic 50meter pond pools
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The Bitcoin association has responded. A donation campaign, #BitcoinPorMariana, has broadcast Facebook, Reddit and added amusing media. Funds aloft will advice awning the costs of carrying bottled water. Brazilian aggregation Água Canção Nova will accommodate the antiseptic baptize — alone charging assembly costs. FoxBit, a Brazilian Bitcoin exchange, and organizer of the abatement fund, says it costs almost $2,000 to ample and accelerate a barter with 25,000 liters of bubbler water. FlowBTC, CoinBR, NegocieCoins and BitcoinToYou accept apprenticed $2,500. The attack will aftermost until November 30, 2015.
At columnist time, the BitcoinPorMariana accessible abode has accustomed 104 donations, accretion 3,000 mBTC. At accepted bazaar rates, this bulk is account about $1,004 USD.
Bitcoin has become a accepted donation adjustment for adversity relief. In November 2013, now-defunct Bitcoin barter BitMe organized a armamentarium to advice draft victims in the Philippines. Recently, ChangeTip organized a attack that auspiciously donated 29 Bitcoin to the victims of the Nepalese avalanches. BitGive is the aboriginal registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit alms whose sole focus is Bitcoin-powered accommodating works. The foundation focuses primarily on the areas of accessible bloom and the environment. Many Bitcoin businesses and individuals accept fabricated ample donations to BitGive’s assorted causes.
There are still misconceptions about Bitcoin that accident its acceptability as agency for altruistic funds. Bitcoin has continued been criticized as a way to accounts abominable activities. Recently, CNBC aired a segment citation Bitcoin as a agency of agitator financing. In adverse with these claims, donation campaigns advance the appropriate backdrop of Bitcoin for allowance others. Bitcoin, with its cellophane blockchain, deters corruption. If chosen, it keeps donations out of the easily of the accompaniment and ensures bread-and-butter efficiency. Bitcoin additionally allows for accessible micropayments. These payments can be beatific to alien genitalia of the apple cheaply.
If you are absorbed in authoritative a Bitcoin donation to advice armamentarium the abatement effort, the official donation abode can be begin here.
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