Blockchain Tech is Bringing Honesty Back to Charities

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The beauty of blockchain technology is that it brings transparency and honesty to transactions.

Today I want to focus on how this new technology can drastically improve the honesty, efficiency, effectiveness of charities.

I first became familiar with Griff Green after the DAO attack, I’d referenced his articles on Medium many times to be sure I could get a hold of my Ether Classic. As it turns out, in addition to donating his time to help users of Ethereum, Griff Green also began a blockchain-based charity, so let’s check it out.

Giveth is a blockchain-based, open source platform built on the Ethereum blockchain.

It serves as a place to bring people together. It’s for those who have causes and goals towards community improvements, and it’s for those who want to help see that those goals come to fruition.

If you want to donate to a cause on Giveth, you will be connected to those individuals who are putting in the work, giving you a much more clear and honest look at directly how your donations are helping.

All too often the big name nonprofit foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the American Red Cross are less than transparent about what they do with the funds raised through donations.

This just emphasizes the need for honesty for the good of those who need help, and for those who can provide it.

Also a really great aspect of Giveth is that it is open source, meaning that if one cause discovers a successful way to meet their goal, this method can be shared with others on the platform to help them achieve success as well.
So keep and eye out for Giveth if you’re looking for a way to contribute to an honestly good cause, or if you want to organize fundraising for a cause to benefit others.

There are other projects that have community at its core, one of these is pretty new, it’s called SmartCash.

There has been a bit of activity involving cryptocurrency in Venezuela, with some community members from Dash organizing educational conferences. SmartCash is also focused on helping Venezuelans in a number of ways.

In a nutshell, Smartcash is very focused on community governance, and community funded projects.

Because it is so new, the proposals are mostly focused on promotion of Smartcash, but I was quite happy to see that one proposal is designed to distribute roughly 600 meals once a week for a month. They will also be educating the locals there about the benefits of cryptocurrency and how they can invest with their local currency.

If you haven't already, be sure to check out the video to hear from Aaron, the man who developed this Smartcash proposal and his motivations for doing so!

Additional Reading/Sources:

Giveth website
Giveth Wiki
Griff Green on Medium

Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation Truth

American Red Cross Truth

Smartcash website
Roadmap
SmartRewards
SmartHive Governance Portal (Voting on Proposals)
Smartcash TipBot for Steemit

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In Venezuela we try to evade the central government at every opportunity, since they have totally controlled the financial system and the entire economy. Inflation exceeds 1000% and it is impossible to acquire dollars, for that reason people have seen an escape from the government the crypto-currencies.

How much is a bitcoin currently in Venezuela.

You can see it here http://www.bitven.com/, although the market price may fluctuate depending on buyers and sellers, I usually sell and buy bitcoin at the market price of https://localbitcoins.net/. Currently a Bitcoin in Venezuela is about 127,308,529.27 Bolívares. at the beginning of the year the bitcoin cost about 2 million bolivars if I remember correctly, for you to appreciate the
difference.

I noticed that in Venezuela and Zimbabwe bitcoin price is significantly high. For example a bitcoin is about 7000$ in Zimbabwe. I think I will have to open accounts in those countries.

Thanks

Yes, the problem is that if you open an account in one of these two countries, you will not really be able to purchase any goods and services, unless you want Venezuelan oil, haha, and if you buy bolivars, the only way you can later to buy dollars, it is changed again by bitcoin.

So there are no bureau de change services.?

They only serve to sell, and the government buys them at a price lower than that offered in the market. It may be possible to acquire another type of currency other than dollar, euro or pound, such as the Yuan, but you will never win with the offered rates.

looks like the situation is more complicated than i thought. thanks @vieire for taking the time to explain.

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Oh, thanks! I'll investigate more about her. Thank you very much.

Yessum!

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/smartcash/

Watch the video, thats kind of what it was 1/2 about :p

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its sad to see whats happening to all the people of Venezuela, I am Mongolian and when i was kid we used to watch this Venezuelan soup opera called -carasusia/it translates dirty face- . i still have this awesome image of Venezuela being diverse, hot and sexy. I really hope that you guys actually find ways in crypto currency tech and liberate your country from tyrany and be the first state to financially governed by the people and show the people of the world that it can be done. Many fights infront of you but luckely technology is here to aid you and many people of the world with you.

its not venezuela alone most 3rd world countries suffer the same fate, but with the growth of crypto things are changing

I do not really believe that they earn too much, in Venezuela they put in prison and they persecute the miners of criptodivisas as well as all those that work with this technology, although there is no legislation in this respect. That is, we use crypto-currencies, but we do it discreetly.

SmartCash is living up to its name and should be one to watch if it can continue pushing proposals that change lives for people who need cryptocurrency the most!

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Thanks @decentralizd - I'm a member of the Slack and see you around all the time helping others.

Thank you for the info ... much needed charity transparency

Awesome stuff @heiditravels great informative post here. Thank you for all the hard work. Just shared this to all my crypto groups on fb and twitter. SmartCash is doing so many good acts around the world and this is just the beginning. Here in the Philippines things are tough but not compared to some of these other places.....Anyway working on a video about SmartCash right now....Almost finished.

Is good to see the blockchain changing lives.

Blockchain, Crypto, bitcoins, TBC all puts my head in a maze wallahi.

Resteemed and upvoted. Love the ideas of Giveth and SmartCash @heiditravels .

It sad when alot of good charities out their need to turn to 3rd party fund raising companies, to raise some funds. And most the time they make big profits, only to pay for a new lambo.

Will be waiting for giveth crowdsale and promoting SmartCash also.

I be watching their feeds and sharing them.

Thank you for sharing these two.

your such a smar cooki :)

Great post. Sharing to raise awareness.