{"id":3157,"date":"2016-09-20T13:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2016-09-20T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:52:38","slug":"anonymous-person-donates-38-btc-to-africas-water-supply-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/anonymous-person-donates-38-btc-to-africas-water-supply-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Person Donates 38 BTC to Africa&#8217;s Water Supply Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous donator has sent 38 BTC amounting to $23,000 to charity fund BitGive. The money will be used to maintain operations of The Water Project in Africa.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Water Project is a charitable organization that provides sustainable water projects to communities in Kenya, Uganda and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>BitGive helped the organization to accumulate funds to drill a water well in Western Kenya. The well provides clear water to the local community of 500 people and a high school for girls.<\/p>\n<p>BitGive published a video describing the changes in Kenya caused by using cryptocurrencies. It initiated another flow of donations, the biggest of which (38 BTC) was sent by an anonymous donator.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BitGive - The Water Project - Shisango Girls School 3-min\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ESEI6WazuUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday you gave enough BTC &#8211; totally anonymously &#8211; to provide clean, safe water and sanitation facilities to an entire school AND for the monitoring and repair funds to keep it working for years to come. We&#8217;ll be identifying the exact site (likely in Sierra Leone or Kenya) and will post details on our Bitcoin Donation Page soon,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/52nzsa\/thanks_for_your_generous_gift_whoever_you_are\/\" target=\"_blank\">reddit post<\/a> by the water project team stated.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The foundation hopes their efforts would help overcome negative attitude towards Bitcoin in nations like the US, where cryptocurrency is still widely perceived as a payment tool for illegal trade platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous donator has sent 38 BTC amounting to $23,000 to charity fund BitGive. The money will be used to maintain operations of The Water Project in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[284,304,306],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-africa","tag-bithope","tag-charity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"76","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}