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HumanVenture provides a dignified, everyday solution for financial support to over a thousand poverty-stricken families and children across Austria and Russia. For these families, this pioneering blockchain-based innovation allows them to regularly purchase groceries and essential supplies, providing vital breathing room in the battle against food insecurity. As HumanVenture prepare to relocate their base of operations to the UK, I'm honoured to be able to join them in bringing their fully transparent donation system to Britain. Crypto and Charity "If Bitcoin is secured with energy/electricity, then Fiat is secured by war" - Mitja Goroshevsky , Ton Labs co-founder and CTO. When you think of Bitcoin and blockchain, charity is not usually the first thing to mind. Despite Elon Musk's baseless claims about environmental impact, the human impact of blockchain and distributed ledger technology is far more significant than most realise. And I mean this in the most positive way possible. Besides noble philanthropic examples I could name from Binance Charity, BitHope or GiveTrack, there are some really god-darn heart-warming anecdotes out there. Take fellow Brit and infamous Twitter troll @CryptoCobain, and his stream @UpOnlyTV, for example. Out of sheer for the hell of it niceness and humanity, they've given over $2m worth of cryptocurrencies to various individual causes. A 6-year-old child currently battling leukaemia was on the receiving end of one of these random acts of charity, as thousands of viewers on Cobie's stream donated $800,000 worth of crypto for his treatments. Read more...