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10 Common Misconceptions Nonprofits Have About Bitcoin Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It cannot be arbitrarily printed/devalued like what happened in Venezuela. Myth 8: Mining cryptocurrency is bad for the environment. If you compare the electricity use of cryptocurrencies to that of traditional fiat currencies, you’d find that the US dollar is significantly worse for the environment.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

After graduating college, I became a translater for tobacco giant Philip Morris in Venezuela. As an example, an experiment was done to increase hotel towel reuse through changing messages: the traditional ''this many gallons are used to wash towels, please reuse your towel to help us save the environment '' was used as the control message.

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