UNICEF Urges Gamers To Mine Ether For Syrian Children

UNICEF Urges Gamers To Mine Ether For Syrian Children

It is not a secret that blockchain as a phenomenon can be used for various purposes and different fields of human lives. In particular, UN program website, anybody who wishes to assist it is free to download the mining software and to obtain mere guidelines about how to make it work. Currently, there are already 394 contributors to the project, who have collected nearly 900 euros for children’s needs. The project is set to close at the end of March.

The program urges all the gamers to take part in the fundraising when mining bitcoin's young brother – ethereum.

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“Have you heard of Bitcoin? Ethereum is the same, except that you can more easily ‘mine’ the Ethereum coins via your computer and that money will go directly into the UNICEF wallet,” it is stated on the website.

One may wonder why UNICEF calls mostly gamers for the participation. The answer is pretty clear: such people possess enough of resources to do the crypto mining, like potent graphics cards and so on.

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