The Pineapple Fund is a philanthropic project by an anonymous individual to give away 5,057 Bitcoins to charity (valued at $86 million in December 2017).
Video Pineapple Fund
Foundation
The Pineapple Fund was announced with a post on reddit on December 14, 2017 linking to the domain pineapplefund.org.
The individual behind the fund has remained anonymous, but says they have been involved in Bitcoin since the early days.
Maps Pineapple Fund
Donations
The fund's first donation was $1 million to Watsi.
The fund made its two largest donations of $5 million each to GiveDirectly and The Open Medicine Foundation. It also promised to match an additional $4 million of donations to MAPS.
The fund has also donated $1 million to the following organisations:
- Internet Archive
- The Water Project
- BitGive
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
- Sens Research Foundation
- Charity: Water
- Mona Foundation
- newstory
- Pencils of Promise
- Quill
- The Focus Foundation
- Possible
- Open Medicine Foundation
- Free Software Foundation
- Sustainable Ocean Alliance
In addition the fund has donated smaller amounts to other organisations bringing its total disbursements to $20 million as of January 2018.
See also
- List of bitcoin organizations
References
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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