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The Arbitrum blockchain project, together with Gitcoin Winter, is launching three donation programs. According to the project team, as part of The Arbitrum Citizens Retrofunding Round #1, the community will help us distribute 100,000 ARB to the Arbinauts that have proactively stepped up and impacted the governance and processes of the
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Former FTX executive Ryan Salame will reportedly avoid testifying about his role in FTX’s alleged illegal campaign donation scheme if he is subpoenaed in Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial.Lawyers representing the former FTX co-CEO said that Salame will be unavailable as a witness to the case, according to an Aug. 14
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The nonprofit has also received donations from digital assets firm Nexo. Block CEO Jack Dorsey and his Start Small funding group have yet again lent support to a Bitcoin-focused project. This follows after a recent announcement by Brink revealed that the Start Small fund has committed to donating $5 million to
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Brink, a nonprofit organization aimed at supporting Bitcoin developers, has announced a $5 million donation from Block CEO Jack Dorsey and his Start Small funding group.In a June 14 tweet, Brink said Dorsey and Start Small pledged to make $1 million in donations annually for the next five years as
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After the disgraced co-founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), donated $5.2 million to Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 and more than $40 million to Democrats leading up to the U.S. midterm election cycle, three major Democratic organizations plan to return 2.2% of the funds, or $1 million, to the now-defunct
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Bankman-Fried personally donated $40 million to largely Democratic candidates, while other FTX executives, including co-CEO Ryan Salame, donated to Republicans. Some, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who received at least $16,600 from Bankman-Fried, are rushing to wash their hands of the association with the suspect donations, promising to give the
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Everstake, a blockchain firm that partnered with the Ukrainian government to launch a donation website amid the country’s war with Russia, has pushed back against online rumors and conspiracy theories that the platform was used for politically motivated money laundering. Ukrainian government officials partnered with Everstake, Kuna and the now infamous
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press release PRESS RELEASE. The EU-funded web3 startup Data Lake has launched the world’s first medical data donation system, based on Distributed Ledger Technology and with a novel incentives mechanism that rewards people for their medical data altruism called “Consent-to-Earn” (C2E). They recently launched their pilot program to collect patient consents
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But when it comes to donating in crypto, Yass outranks even the FTX chief. In early July, Yass gave 100 bitcoin (BTC), then worth more than $1.9 million, to “Crypto Freedom PAC,” a representative for the super PAC confirmed to CryptoX. It is the largest bitcoin-denominated political donation ever recorded
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“At some point, when you've given your message to voters, there's just not a whole lot more you can do,” Bankman-Fried said. “You can spend more time on it, and more messaging, more money, more anything else, [but] you're not accomplishing anything more.” Source
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