THELOGICALINDIAN - A cheep column on January 29 answer a website affairs a socalled cure for coronavirus accepting Bitcoin as acquittal Scams such as this accept proliferated as the all-around crisis escalates
Scammers Selling False Hope & Asking for Bitcoin
The Russian-based website affairs the affected cure has been deactivated. Screenshots appearance it alms the alleged vaccine in doses for up to three people. It claimed to be angry to the Australian National University in Canberra.
Although all-encompassing analysis is underway, no cure or vaccine for COVID-19 anon exists. Nevertheless, it is not hasty that scammers would seek to accomplishment the accepted crisis by announcement hoaxes. Any alleged treatments awash online should be avoided. Some media personalities, such as Alex Jones, accept been ordered to stop announcement supplements and another medicines that they accept asserted will action the disease.
Criminals are additionally attempting to accumulation by establishing affected charities and abutment organizations. Many seek donations via Bitcoin. Thus, any accumulation claiming to accommodate abatement during the accepted beginning should be abundantly researched. The Better Business Bureau has a website committed to this issue.
One safe way to accord is to accept a absolute alignment such as the Red Cross. A drive by the Italian Red Cross has already aloft bags of Euros for coronavirus relief. Bitcoin donations to the International Red Cross can be fabricated via BitPay.
Legitimate Projects Use Science And Real Data
There are a growing cardinal of accepted applications of bitcoin’s basal technology blockchain beneath development that may advice action the coronavirus. One is Stanford University’s folding@home project, which now seeks advice from bitcoin and crypto miners. For years volunteers accept donated their computer’s bare cycles to this activity for protein research. Folding@home is now ambience up a version of this appliance for belief COVID-19 that can account abundantly from admission to GPUs.
Also, proposals to administer Blockchain technology to action the virus has led to a cardinal of aggregate initiatives. One is the Covidathon, an eight-week hackathon sponsored by SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol. Blockchain-based apps are additionally beneath development. Some seek to actualize bearding alternate maps of infection hotspots that can accommodate abiding abstracts for both bloom workers and the accepted public. Others affiance to bigger administer the circuitous acumen of carrying badly bare medical equipment.
Importantly, as the action adjoin COVID-19 grows, it will be more important to draw a acumen amid honest projects and those that seek to exploit the accessible by accouterment apocryphal hope.
We ambition you break safe amidst this crisis and not abatement casualty to any such scams
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