Charity and cryptocurrency have developed quite a partnership over the years. The latest addition to that mix comes in the form of UNICEF, the United Nations’ organization that seeks to aid starving and impoverished children across the globe.UNICEF Is at the Heart of a Crypto BoostUNICEF has announced that it will begin accepting donations in both ether and bitcoin. It is the first UN-based organization to accept crypto, which could potentially mark a huge point in crypto’s development and...
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Seit dem 8. Oktober ist es offiziell: Ab sofort kann man mit Kryptowährungen an UNICEF spenden. Hatte UNICEF bereits 2018 mit neun Token experimentiert: Beispielsweise in der UNICEF eigenen Startup-Förderung und einzelne Sektionen wie UNICEF Frankreich setzten schon länger auf Bitcoin. Nachdem diese Testphasen erfolgreich abgeschlossen und ausgewertet wurden geht die UNICEF nun weltweit live und ab...
Read More »UNICEF Guarantees Zero Fiat-Conversion for Your Crypto Donations
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has become the first UN agency to receive, hold and disburse aid in crypto. While the phrase ‘accepting cryptocurrency’ has become code for merely allowing payments or donations to be made in crypto while receiving dollars or other fiat currencies, contributions made to UNICEF will be held as crypto and distributed to beneficiaries without any conversion. This has been made possible through the establishment of the UNICEF...
Read More »UNICEF Created Its Crypto Fund, Accepting Donations in Bitcoin and Ethereum
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, announced they are launching a crypto fund to, as per the announcement “receive, hold and distribute donations of Bitcoin and Ethereum in its aim to back open-source technology for children around the world.”On Wednesday, UNICEF said that the Cryptocurrency Fund will be among the first of United Nations organizations that will be given benefactions as are cryptocurrencies and it will allocate in the same digital currency form.The United Nations...
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