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You can use bank transfers and Bitcoin to donate directly, see this page: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ It seems that bit

by Geee 5y ago

You can use bank transfers and Bitcoin to donate directly, see this page: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ It seems that bitcoin donations are pouring in (over $4 million already). You can watch the bitcoin address here: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qkd5az2ml7dk5j5h672yhxmhmxe9tuf97j39fm6 https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qkd5az2ml7dk5j5...

danuker 5y ago
Hopefully they have good security around the private key.
capableweb 5y ago
While they are in fact receiving lots of BTC, one transaction sticks out (80 BTC, 2022-02-25 09:55:18 [3,067,846.41 USD]), I wonder who has that much BTC to give away like that. It is impressive, but raises a lot of questions.
- sam0x17 5y ago
  Not really. There are plenty of low-profile high-net-worth miners with that much. I used to hang out in the cex.io chatroom back in 2014 and there were fat cat miners in there who would say "watch this" and then the price would quickly go down by several percentage points because their entire mining pool just sold. It seems quite plausible at least to me that one of these networks might decide to donate a large amount all at once.
  - nurettin 5y ago
    This is really cool to read, but trading volume of btc went from 20M when it was 3 years old to 170M over the years, so that happens a lot less frequently.
    - sam0x17 5y ago
      These days, many of these same individuals are literally buying plane-loads of chips fresh off the assembly lines in China, and have significantly scaled up their operations with their previous gains, so I wouldn't count it out.
- Darmody 5y ago
  Vitalik Buterin, just to mention one. He tweeted his support to Ukraine. "Ethereum is neutral but I'm not". I'm not saying it was him but it could be. And 80 BTC to him it's peanuts.
aboyko2000 5y ago
Here's official info from the National Bank of Ukraine with more options: https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...

by Geee 5y ago

danuker 5y ago

Hopefully they have good security around the private key.

capableweb 5y ago

While they are in fact receiving lots of BTC, one transaction sticks out (80 BTC, 2022-02-25 09:55:18 [3,067,846.41 USD]), I wonder who has that much BTC to give away like that. It is impressive, but raises a lot of questions.

sam0x17 5y ago
Not really. There are plenty of low-profile high-net-worth miners with that much. I used to hang out in the cex.io chatroom back in 2014 and there were fat cat miners in there who would say "watch this" and then the price would quickly go down by several percentage points because their entire mining pool just sold. It seems quite plausible at least to me that one of these networks might decide to donate a large amount all at once.
- nurettin 5y ago
  This is really cool to read, but trading volume of btc went from 20M when it was 3 years old to 170M over the years, so that happens a lot less frequently.
  - sam0x17 5y ago
    These days, many of these same individuals are literally buying plane-loads of chips fresh off the assembly lines in China, and have significantly scaled up their operations with their previous gains, so I wouldn't count it out.
Darmody 5y ago
Vitalik Buterin, just to mention one. He tweeted his support to Ukraine. "Ethereum is neutral but I'm not". I'm not saying it was him but it could be. And 80 BTC to him it's peanuts.

aboyko2000 5y ago

Here's official info from the National Bank of Ukraine with more options: https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...