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12-15-2017, 10:40 AM
Bitcoin tycoon promises to give away $86 million worth of bitcoins to charity
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If you had a fortune in bitcoins, what would you do with it?
One Bitcoin (http://mashable.com/category/bitcoin/) whale (a term often used for someone who owns a lot of bitcoins) has decided to simply give most of it away to charities.
The anonymous benefactor announced his intentions on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jj0oa/im_donating_5057_btc_to_charitable_causes/), and launched a site for this endeavor which he had called the Pineapple Fund (https://pineapplefund.org/).*
SEE ALSO: Bitcoin just made the Winklevoss twins billionaires (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/tyler-cameron-winklevoss-bitcoin-billionaire/)
"I remember starting at bitcoin a few years ago. (...) Bitcoin has changed my life, and I have far more money than I can ever spend. My aims, goals, and motivations in life have nothing to do with having XX million or being the mega rich. So I'm doing something else: donating the majority of my bitcoins to charitable causes. I'm calling it 🍍 The Pineapple Fund," he wrote on Reddit.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/bitcoin-charity/)
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If you had a fortune in bitcoins, what would you do with it?
One Bitcoin (http://mashable.com/category/bitcoin/) whale (a term often used for someone who owns a lot of bitcoins) has decided to simply give most of it away to charities.
The anonymous benefactor announced his intentions on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jj0oa/im_donating_5057_btc_to_charitable_causes/), and launched a site for this endeavor which he had called the Pineapple Fund (https://pineapplefund.org/).*
SEE ALSO: Bitcoin just made the Winklevoss twins billionaires (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/tyler-cameron-winklevoss-bitcoin-billionaire/)
"I remember starting at bitcoin a few years ago. (...) Bitcoin has changed my life, and I have far more money than I can ever spend. My aims, goals, and motivations in life have nothing to do with having XX million or being the mega rich. So I'm doing something else: donating the majority of my bitcoins to charitable causes. I'm calling it 🍍 The Pineapple Fund," he wrote on Reddit.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/bitcoin-charity/)
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