Bitpoint exchange briefed fiscal year losses, Binance donated masks to Japanese nursing homes, and more headlined news from Japan this past week. This week’s headlines from Japan included BitBank exchange adding three trading pairs, Bitpoint exchange posting decreased fiscal year totals, Bitpoint adding information on its 2019 hack, and Binance donating masks to Japanese nursing…
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A crypto exchange from Mexico has launched an initiative to gather COVID-19-related donations through cryptocurrencies. Mexican cryptocurrency exchange Bitso joined forces with the crowdfunding platform Donadora to launch a crypto-based donation system. The platform will help gather funds to buy food for the most vulnerable families affected by the COVID-19 crisis. According to a report published by El Heraldo…
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Peer-to-peer crypto marketplace Paxul is expanding its charitable program to Africa amid the COVID-19 crisis. Peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency marketplace Paxful announced on May 4 the expansion of its #BuiltWithBitcoin charitable initiative in Africa with the launch of the “Africa Fund.” The fund will use Bitcoin (BTC) donations to purchase essential resources for the fight against…
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Blockchain-based cloud network Storj has announced a program to provide free storage to organizations researching COVID-19. Decentralized storage network, Storj, has launched a program providing free storage to organizations participating in COVID-19 research. The program follows widespread contributions from the crypto community toward the distributed scientific research platform, Folding@Home. Organization researching COVID-19 qualify for 2TB…
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The Stellar Development Foundation will match public donations up to a maximum of 1.9 million XLM. The Stellar Development Foundation is matching donations in Lumens (XLM) made to six non-profits during April, including the Tor Project — the team behind ‘The Onion Router’ anonymizing browser. Donations will be matched up to a total of 1.9…
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Ripple will allocate funds to non-profit organizations in favor of fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Ripple Labs announced a donation of $200,000 to two different non-profit organizations on March 25. These donations will aid in the fight to contain the spread of the coronavirus throughout the U.S. In a tweet published on Ripple’s official profile, the lab…
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After successfully raising the money for an advanced pre-triage medical post, the Italian Red Cross will continue accepting Bitcoin donations. The Italian Red Cross is now seeking Bitcoin (BTC) donations to purchase emerging medical equipment after its first-crypto initiative surpassed its goal within three days. On March 12, Italy’s Red Cross launched a BTC fundraising…
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Decentralized coronavirus research initiative Folding@Home has announced that 400,000 users are contributing to its platform. In a recent Reddit ask-me-anything (AMA) Gregory Bowman, Folding@Home’s (F@H) director, revealed that the project currently has 400,000 computers actively contributing to research. “We had about 30K users before the pandemic started,” he stated, adding: “In the past two weeks,…
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Coronavirus relief efforts continue as an Ethereum-based dev crowdfunding platform pledges $50,000 in grants towards public health projects. The proliferation of cryptocurrency companies seeking to donate or raise funds for coronavirus relief efforts continues. Ethereum-based crowdfunding platform, Gitcoin, is advancing this trend by pledging at least $50,000 in development grants toward coronavirus-related initiatives. On March…
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Zcoin launched a new platform designed to serve as a shift from direct funding from the block reward to a donation model. Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcoin (XZC) has launched a new crowdfunding system similar to one by another major privacy coin, Monero (XMR). In a Dec. 26 blog post, Zcoin announced the launch of the Zcoin…
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