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Hello!

I remember starting at bitcoin a few years ago. When bitcoin broke single digits for the first time, I thought that was a triumphant moment for bitcoin. I watched and admired the price jump to $15.. $20.. $30.. wow!

Today, I see $17,539 per BTC. I still don't believe reality sometimes. 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.

So far, The Pineapple Fund has/is:

* Donated $1 million to Watsi, an impressively innovative charity building technology to finance universal healthcare.

* Donated $1 million to The Water Project, a charity providing sustainable water projects to suffering communities in Africa

* Donating $1 million to the EFF, defending rights and privacy of internet users, fighting for net neutrality, and far far more

* Donated $500k to BitGive Foundation, a charity building projects that leverage bitcoin and blockchain technology for global philanthropy.

If you know a registered nonprofit charity, please encourage them to apply on the fund's website! While I prefer supporting registered charities, I am open to supporting charitable causes as well. Check out the website :)

https://pineapplefund.org/

“Because once you have enough money, money doesn't matter.” That is a good motto, and pretty sure this is a good thing to do for charity and making use of your money for the needy I really think that if you are truly blessed by GOD you will truly help and do good work because of GOD's Grace, Well bitcoin really had some impact in every person sometimes, and if I have seen a worthy charity that need further help I will inform them about this site, and GOD bless.

This is amazing, seems great. With more money comes more responsibility, if only more people started thinking this way instead of caring about themselves only and buying Lambos

I am not a supporter of this charity. It will not change anything. People spend your money for daily needs and it's all over. They again begin to starve. It seems to me that charity should be what you need to build enterprise in the country where people will work and receive regular income. The profits from this enterprise should be directed on building of new enterprises. Then your help will make sense.

I just want to say I really admire what you're doing. This is absolutely amazing of you, we need more people like you. Here are some list of public charities that do accept bitcoin.
Bread for the City | breadforthecity.org | 52-1138207 | Washington DC
Central Texas Food Bank | centraltexasfoodbank.org | 74-2217350 | Austin TX
Gift of A Helping Hand | tgoahhctbuildingandtoyfund.org | 38-3640111 | Detroit MI
Save the Children Federation | savethechildren.org | 06-0726487 | Fairfield CT
World Aid for Homeless Children | worldaid.org | 26-4576703 | Washington DC
League Against Aids | leagueagainstaids.com | 65-0057294 | Miami FL
Without Regrets Foundation | withoutregrets.org | 45-2592845 | Dripping Springs TX

Man, on behalf of all of the recipients of those funds, big thank you for this. It is really a great deed to help someone who is in need and today there are a lot of people who don't have enough just for the basic needs. I'm really happy to see someone having this attitude :)

Actually, I have thought of one worthy charity: http://www.fightfortheforgotten.org (http://www.fightfortheforgotten.org)

It's a charity set up my MMA fighter Justin Wren for liberating pygmy slaves in the Congo, as well as drilling wells to provide sustainable drinking water, rainforest preservation & wildlife conservation. Joe Rogan himself recently donated bitcoin to his charity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2jKc2U2Z0 (https://youtu.be/tk2jKc2U2Z0?t=22m52s)

I've reached out to Justin & encouraged him to apply to your website & I really hope you can help :)

Wow this is absolutely amazing what you are doing. I started reading with scepticism but then I opened your webpage and the links you provide. Wow, what may I say? You are a good man and I wish you all the best. Do you donate only bitcoin or do you consider donating regular money after it has been exchanged? Do you support US only charities or other in the world as well?

You are one of the lucky ones. I wish I would've found out about Crypto when Bitcoin came out. But how? It's hard to hear about new things when they are new. Once they are in media, everybody knows about it and the competition grows.

A complete BOW for this Tremendous act from you !

Real heroes like you are needed more and more !!!!

Nice words, BTC changing the world. Congratulations for the cause, and for trying helping charitable.

You are promoting a business and you are saying that you wanna share your earnings. I hope you are honest. If you are come to me if you have time. You can give money without spending money to be able to give more money after.

It's great what you do.
Well, there are people in this world who want to help others and promote BITCOIN
 :)

What a wonderful gesture. Thank you very much for your kindness. I am pretty sure the communities you are donating to will forever be grateful. Its good to see someone taking the BTC profits towards a charitable cause. Unfortunately i doubt many will even acknowledge the good you are doing because we have become a community that cares only about themselves.

We haven't chance to jump into BTC earlier and now we can't afford that  :( :(

5750 BTC ? a huge amount

I need a time-machine! I would definitely find whom to help if I had such possibility...

Congratulations for managing this campaign. Of course most of us don't have the amount you have but I'm pretty sure many others follow the logic of charity work once they start to get something...

Please consider creating many happy children by donating to LOSEV.

http://www.losev.org.tr/v2/en/content.asp?ctID=501

I think their website (English version) has issues with Adobe Flash player. You can contact them by visiting following page:
http://www.losev.org.tr/v2/en/content.asp?ctID=482

Charity is always nice to see, hope you keep doing this.

Hello Dev! Can you chech one project please? Think you will like it! It is about our food quality and control of that: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2678812.msg27350371#msg27350371

Hi

there is this greatest (in terms of media coverage, fund raising capability, and recognition, and also in terms of the good they do) charity in Poland which is called Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy (Great Orchestry of Christmas Charity). It seems that the event for last year is already over, but they accept bitcoin and I have learnt about it only now.

I highly recommend it for your consideration next year. OR, you might want to contact Jerzy Owsiak, he is a very recognized person in Poland, and support his fundation mid-year.

They do a lot of good stuff for sick kids in Poland, providing public hospitals with very expensive equipment for newborns and supporting health-care and life support for the newborns with their funds.

https://bitbay.net/en/crowdfunding/great-orchestra-of-christmas-charity-2018

Thanks!

Hi All,

I just wrote an article on Medium about the Pineapple Fund and their two match commitments that they've announced between now and March 10, 2018.  It's a great opportunity for your cryptocurrency donation to go further and support some great causes!

Check it out:

Pineapples and Ecstasy: Charitable Giving in the Bitcoin Era
https://medium.com/btric/pineapples-and-ecstasy-charitable-giving-in-the-bitcoin-era-45683de6df61 (https://medium.com/btric/pineapples-and-ecstasy-charitable-giving-in-the-bitcoin-era-45683de6df61)

Thanks,
Ben

wow, i never knew there are already bitgive foundation, if they really exist, i admire them for having a big heart in helping others thru the use of bitcoin, i hope you are honest to your intention in posting this, not for the sake of having a merit piled up on your profile for this wonderful words of admiration. if this is true be rest assure i will support this, and even repost this, or gather different organizations that cater also the needy. if i become rich someday, put me on your list of philanthropist.

Yes they are a great organization and have been around for several years.  They have a great initiative that they launched last year and it seems to have progressed a good deal since that beta release called GiveTrack.  It reminds me of Kiva if you're familiar with that service, but seems to be more transparent and accountable to donors.  You should check it out: https://www.givetrack.org/ (https://www.givetrack.org/)

The website of the foundation is: https://bitgivefoundation.org/ (https://bitgivefoundation.org/), they have a wealth of information about cryptocurrency and charitable giving.

Best regards,
Ben