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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, pledged $1 million for the suckers of the floods in West Japan.
In an official post, Binance stated:
“To ease out the victims in West Japan that were affected by the heavy rain cats on 7/7/2018, Binance is donating $1,000,000 USD and calling for our crypto friends and participants to join us in the relief initiative.”
On Saturday Japan has been hit with unprecedented rainfall issuing floods and landslides. According to a BBC report, More than 60 people require died and about a dozen people have been missing since. PM Shinzo Abe has ordered the evacuation of two million people in the disaster-prone squares.
Binance has urged users who’d like to donate to the cause to send ETH or ERC-20 souvenirs to the wallet mentioned in their official post.
“Send ETH or ERC20 tokens you penury to donate directly to the Binance donation address 0xA73d9021f67931563fDfe3E8f66261086319a1FC”
They held that all outgoing transactions would only be used for charity wills and will be explained by Binance.
Changpeng Zhao, the founder and CEO of Binance, tweeted out profession the crypto community to contribute towards this fund. He stated that the enjoin logistics would be figured out shortly and his team is contacting local powers that bes to figure out final delivery logistics. “Given the short time, we had to put this very simple for this time. We will build something assorted systematic later.” he further stated.
He also mentioned that drafts which donated to the cause would get “bonus points for future roll requests” and that they might consider the donation towards the tilt fees.
Exact logistics will be figured out shortly. Reply to this string or let me know if you (ur project) want to donate. Bonus points for future roll requests. And we may count your donations towards the listing fees. Itemized projects, you know what to do!
— CZ (not giving crypto away) (@cz_binance) July 8, 2018
The Ethereum purse mentioned has received about $90,000 worth of ETH and $1.05 Million quality of ERC-20 tokens as of writing.
Cryptocurrencies have been long utilized to donate for charitable causes especially due to the transparency of transactions on the public ledger. The Pineapple Mine money, run by an anonymous donor, has supported over 60 charities, ranging from undefiled water initiatives to open source projects, by donating $55 million dollars importance of Bitcoin. As CCN reported earlier, Ripple has donated $29 million in XRP to DonorsChoose, a beneficence which helps public school teachers raise money for edifying resources such as books and school supplies. Freedom of the Press Setting up, a non-profit aimed to protect journalists and whistleblowers, has recently started suffering cryptocurrencies for donations and has already recieved half a million dollars in a number of cryptocurrencies so far.
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