Oprah and The Rock collect crypto donations for Maui wildfire victims
The Rock and Oprah Winfrey launched the People’s Fund of Maui to provide direct financial support to those affected by the calamity.
The Rock and Oprah Winfrey launched the People’s Fund of Maui to provide direct financial support to those affected by the calamity.
The storm hit Florida first in the continental U.S., which may have stopped Ron DeSantis from joining Vivek Ramaswamy in accepting crypto donations for his presidential campaign.
Humanitarian aid and community services charity, Red Cross Singapore, included cryptocurrency as a newly-accepted form of donation.
The fund reported it had distributed more than $500 million to projects, including the Tor Project, the Signal Technology Foundation and the Calyx Institute.
Ramaswamy stated, “Let’s make the 2024 election a referendum on fiat currency.”
It is the first political campaign in U.S. history to accept Bitcoin donations.
The My First Bitcoin education program reaches 1 BTC in donations, with Bitcoin Beach matching contributions, fueling expansion.
Former Chief Technology Officer at Coinbase, Balaji Srinivasan, closed out early a bet that the price of bitcoin would hit $1 million by mid-June amid hyperinflation of the U.S. dollar.…