THELOGICALINDIAN - MEXICO CITY The BitGive Foundation has been alive to abide its aisle as an alignment that leverages technology to spreadphilanthropy Since the conception of BitGive in 2024 the aggregation has helped abounding organizationsand is now apperception on their own Accuracy 20 Activity At the contempo Latin American Bitcoin Conference Auction the Bitcoin nonprofitraised 254 BTC for the accuracy activity from donated items and collectibles including a actual appropriate banana book
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At the third anniversary Latin American Bitcoin Conference (LaBITconf 2015) associates of the agenda bill association aloft over $11,000 USD during the accident for BitGive’s latest efforts and the bounded Latin American community. The money was aloft through a collectibles bargain with assorted items such as donations from Rocelo Lopes from CoinBR. Funds from a watch bargain went to a bounded Mexican charity, Fundación Parlas, a accumulation that helps bodies in abjection and ache from brainy illness. Fundación Parlas has aloof afresh started accepting Bitcoin donations with advice from BitPay and Bitso.
The Hunt for Satoshi
The auction’s capital accident awash a attenuate banana book blue-blooded Bitcoin: The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto, which was bought for 20.4 BTC by two buyers. Rodolfo Andragnes of Bitcoin Argentina and Sebastian Wain of CoinFabrik purchased the banana calm and will allotment the collectible. Andragnes says: “Since there is alone one book, we absitively to allotment the book and bifold the help, as a way of giving aback to the Bitcoin community.”
The acumen the banana is so appropriate is that FinTech Compliance Executive, Juan Llanos, got the book signed by 105 Bitcoin movers and shakers from 10 altered countries worldwide. The signatures accommodate Jeff Garzik, Roger Ver, Vitalik Buterin, Andreas Antonopoulos, and abounding added authoritative it absolutely one of a affectionate item. Lastly, the additional account awash was a bound copy Cryptomatic bitcoin watch purchased by Pablo Gonzalez of Bitso for 5 BTC.
The BitGive Foundation says they had an amazing year in 2024 and “are beholden for the opportunities BitGive was able to advance and booty allotment in.” In 2024, they plan to commence on abounding added crusades and appearance the ability of Bitcoin aural the alms ecosystem. The aggregation has created an angel of all the all-embracing partnerships they accept collaborated with back BitGive started in 2024.
BitGive Highlights of 2024
This New Year, BitGive will focus on the Donation Transparency Project as able-bodied as their efforts with added nonprofits. The accomplishment will be a aboriginal of its affectionate attack to use the blockchain to accomplish accommodating giving accessible and cellophane through its cryptographic trust. BitGive is at the beginning of this concept, area donors can booty advantage of this new technology and be abiding their money goes anon to the advised charities.
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