MEW’s Days of Giving Continue with Internet Archive and Lupus Foundation
When faced with insurmountable odds, we have to wonder — how can an ordinary person affect change? How much do the actions of one human being matter against disasters and troubling trends on a global scale? In truth, change happens gradually. Even when it seems to be sudden, like an earthquake, it can be the result of years — or millennia — of pressure mounting in tiny increments.
To work successfully in the blockchain space, we must have a long-term vision of a decentralized future and the patience to continue building solutions towards that vision. The Days of Christmas Giving allow us to help other projects that are dedicated to gradual but assured progress toward their visions of a better future.
Jessica, Full-Stack Developer — Save the Children
I picked Save the Children because I believe all kids deserve a chance (or a second chance) to reach their greatest potential. As someone who was raised in a more fortunate circumstance than not, I would love to give back to the community in any way possible. I believe that anything good first starts from having a solid foundation and that is why our society needs to give more focus on helping the needs of our younger generation — so that we can create a successful and productive community for all.
Donating to Save the Children
While Save the Children has been accepting Bitcoin donations since 2013, they recently partnered with The Giving Block to begin accepting multiple cryptocurrencies including ETH. Go to savethechildren.org/bitcoin to choose your crypto option, and click through the donation process. You can include your information or donate anonymously. At the end, you will have the option of giving your email for the tax receipt.
Semaja, Blockchain Community Specialist — Lupus Foundation
Growing up with a younger cousin that battled with Lupus I understand the toll this disease takes on your day-to-day life. As a child, your curiosity gets the best of you. You want to see who can run the fastest, hold their breath underwater the longest, jump rope, hopscotch, and everything else your imagination can come up with. It’s your job to hurt yourself and learn from it. My cousin wasn’t able to do this. She was often tired and hurting; her childhood was limited because of Lupus. I decided to donate to Lupus Foundation of America because a little can go a long way. Just bringing awareness to this condition can mean so much to the people that are fighting it every day. I thank MEW for helping me support this cause.
Donating to Lupus Foundation for America
Lupus Foundation accepts many ways of donating and makes it easy to find the options on their main donations page. Once you click through to cryptocurrency donations, you can choose from a number of currencies, including MakerDAO’s stablecoin DAI. You can simply copy the address and send an anonymous donation, or fill out your information to get a receipt.
Gage, Full-Stack Developer — Internet Archive
I chose to donate to the Internet Archive because of their dedication to preserving the history and culture of the internet. It was so much fun growing up during the “Wild West” of the Web, when it was teeming with ideas, content, and games just waiting to be discovered. But unlike the physical Wild West, there will be no lasting remnants of these digital yesteryears, nor of those to come, unless they are actively preserved.
The Internet Archive is committed to this task. Their digital collections include more than 40 petabytes of data: 340 billion Web pages, 2.2 million films and videos, 3.5 million recordings, 170,000 live concerts, 14 million texts including 3 million digital books, 100,000 items of software and 5 million hours of television.
No amount of money can recover what is lost in the sands of time. But together with the proactive diligence of the Internet Archive, and a little collective help from us all, perhaps we can preserve some of our digital history for the future.
Katya, Community Advocate — Internet Archive
With the overwhelming amount of information that we are exposed to on a daily basis, it’s easy to take the availability and permanence of this information for granted. Once we start “googling” things, it can become a dependency: a good one if it feeds intellectual curiosity and provides reliable guidance, a bad one if the information is biased and there is no recourse for objectivity.
The history of human progress is in many ways a history of record keeping. Whether through the oral tradition, writing, or now, digital storage, the records of human experience inform the next steps we must take. A cultural repository that demonstrates both the brilliance and the folly of past generations is invaluable for holding ourselves accountable. Importantly, all these records must remain accessible, transparent, and immutable. This is what the Internet Archive strives to achieve with our collective digital heritage. It is also what the blockchain aims to someday make possible, for all information, for all humanity.
Donating to the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive accepts probably the largest range of cryptocurrencies among all the organizations we’ve researched, which is perhaps as it should be, given the Archive’s work with digital assets. You can even donate altcoins — Changelly helps the organization swap the coins to BTC. Of course, you can also swap coins for ETH in MEW with our integrated exchanges Kyber and Changelly before donating. Right now, the Internet Archive is running a 2-to-1 Matching Campaign for all donations, so it’s a great time to give.
Join our Days of Christmas Giving
If you decide to make your own contribution, do tell us about it on Twitter with the tag #MEWgiving! Or, join our #MEWholidaypups Instagram challenge. Just look at these guys!
Details about MEW’s holiday campaign can be found here.
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