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COVID-19 is taking a heavy toll on Europe. The death toll in Italy rose exponentially, with more than 200 deaths being recorded in the past 24 hours and the number of infected cases surpassing 12,000. The charity organization (https://www.coincurb.com/news/blockchain-is-supporting-funding-and-transparency-amidst-pandemic/) announced to use blockchain technology for funds raising. The chief motive behind the campaign is to reduce stress on hospitals. Hope everything goes according to the plans.

I will start with simple reasons.
Some crypto workers are are working from home. Some are home miners that own graphic cards to mine, some are online programmers that do not see their hirers before being employed, also some are crypto writers that work from home. Some use this platform, Bitcointalk and some other crypto websites to earn. With this, there are options to reduce the way you will go outside because of this virus. You can change your location if you here about the outback in your location. Not like people that depends on fiats.
I do not mean that we are all safe but we are limited to outside work and also hearing about a single person having it in tour area can make you leave such area within a day.

Check the link below to see how crypto companies in USA are working towards the move to be working from home because of corana virus threats
https://www.coindesk.com/new-york-crypto-companies-move-to-work-from-home-in-face-of-rising-covid-19-threat.

The above are indirect effect of crypto blockchains against the virus. Below are the direct effect against coronavirus.

Blockchain vs Coronavirus
Secondly, do you know about Alipay that that launched bockchain power online information? This was launched to create a platform for epidemic prevention materials. No only Alipay that is working tomorrow prevention of epidemic disease. But this link will help you to know the latest going on about blockchain vs covid 19.

https://irishtechnews.ie/blockchain-businesses-overcome-covid-19-china/

Only one active healthcare project working in this field and that is DOC.COM [MTC]
They are not working on COVID-19 but they can help in COVID-19 diagnosis

Are you promoting for that fundraising? In my opinion, what is really needed by us to see more countries will try to put more money into this pandemic. So many billionaires in the world have already sent their charity to help those victim caused by this pandemic can survive against this virus. I think this will not give a huge impact at least it'ss not wrong to try

This has become one of the positive ways in which the crypto world is used as an appropriate way to help others. This has become a beautiful thing where it rarely happens. I strongly support this positive thing

Indirectly the corona effect has made a lot of fears at the moment, we can see how the price reduction is quite significant for bitcoin and altcoin, even some crypto platforms such as Bibox, OKEX must cancel their IPO meeting planned this month in London and will certainly affect their marketing plan this year, but the positive steps taken by Binance should be appreciated because they have been willing to donate 1.5 million US dollars to help victims of the corona virus and at least this could be an initiative for other crypto platforms to help victims from the corona virus more and more nowadays. https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1221166809329491968?s=20

Charitable organizations are very good and of course they are trying to help fight the Corona virus. Such a good solution is to prevent getting infected with the Corona virus directly. This Virus is already pandemic and all countries are now alert.

The current Blockchain has been impacted by the Corona virus effect and all crypto-asset prices are bad. Hopefully with the Blockchain technology charity organizations can help humans to eliminate Corona viruses.

In my opinion the blockchain has technological strength to maintain the data and administration of the moment. However in terms of marketing it would not be pleasant to associate the blockchain with pandemics or something related. On the other hand, if the power of the blockchain is capable of reversing the situation, it will be a historic achievement.

it's a double-edged sword.

Even if the blockchain technology can maintain the medical data, it is useless for the current quarantine mode. The most infected countries are in trouble to supply the necessary medicine and essential equipment. Maybe, in future controlling the data through blockchain technology will make the process more transparent but I doubt there is a specific need for this technology now.

oh, I don't know how to relate to this news. now everyone will try to earn money on this coronavirus epidemic. it is likely that such "charitable" organizations will also try to raise money and then simply not use it. they collect money possibly to buy cryptocurrency while prices are very low and make money in the future.
I do not say that this is 100 true, but I very much doubt their good intentions

I agree, I think its not the right time for  blockchain to be involve in this state of the world - maybe in the future as a preparation.

This is one of the most tragic pandemic case that recorded in the global economy. Most cases of disease never let other company shut down or stop any operation but in our country no more work for people for the meantime. Means that this virus has really be gonna source of downfall of every market. Even stocks platform are forced to shutdown trading. Crypto on the other hand, taking a big hit. I just hope btc price can manuever this crisis.

Governments and health organizations around the world are fighting against COVID-19, how Blockchain getting involved? Till now i don't see any relation between COVID-19 and Blockchain except the decline of crypto market.

if this goes well, I think it will be a good thing for the blockchain when there is a major disaster and the blockchain is participating in fundraising. because it can be the first step of the blockchain to increasingly get the attention of the community, then when this disaster is over and the market is back to normal, then the blockchain can take the highest rank.

The reality is that currently the crypto currency is falling following the stock market due to this corona virus. just look at the current state of the market that is bleeding. Hopefully Corona will quickly subside and get the vaccine. The idea of using a blockchain for fundraising is very good and must be supported.

It's because there's none, the most important thing right now is to discover a vaccine, have people check for the virus, medical supplies for the victims specially the older one, disinfect places, medical workers ready to deploy 24x7. None of those would have to involved blockchain technology as far as I know.

And we all know that crypto or blockchain technology is not like a magic bean that will solved the problem. And everyone should be cautious as well and stay away from public places and don't go out, simply as that.

The only thing that I can think of is let blockchain technology be used as a tool to accept crypto as donations.

Blockchain technology which helps to reduce stress within hospital? How is that possible? With those executed data? I don't think it'll work well in this situation. We have to focused on how can we help to stop the spreading of this ncovid and think of the way for the fast treatment rather than thinking of blockchain that will do some fund raising money. Let's think of the way where we can stop this virus.

Covid-19 is disease and blockchain is technology, both are different but people can use blockchain for charity and I agree with that. To fight we only need antidote and perhaps charity can be use as fund for research and treatment. No one will deny about this idea because we need work together, corona gonna bitcoin will rise again. Government can adopt blockchain into currency and industry will running again.

Well,in my opinion I don't see how blockchain will fight against COVID-19 ,I think it's the work of the government and the health workers,the only thing I think is that blockchain can extend it's hand of support just like what the CEO of binance did by supporting with some amount to take care of those infected.

Yes, the support made by CEO Binance for those infected with the virus must be given a thumbs up, because it will greatly help those affected by the virus, only the work in eradicating the corona virus is not only the work of the government and health workers, but it is the work of all of us, so we can get it done quickly.

If it was used properly it could have helped a lot actually. Think about it, if every single person had a blockchain address, like a wallet but for personal individual being. And all of that people who had address was actually showing some sort of connection with other addresses that they are in contact with, that would mean we could have eliminated all the connections and could have found people who could have in contact with others. In the end we didn't had something like that and honestly people were very very careless about it as well, look at what happened in Italy's south for example.

So, even if blockchain could have been used, there is no chance it could have been properly used by the people, so it would have been an infrastructure for nothing in the end.

First this is a virus as deadly as what one can ever imagine, thus it is the duty of experts to come up with solutions, cure etc and in this case, I don't see the use of blockchain as a tool to fight against this virus unless they are aiming to use blockchain to collect information. Also, on the other hand, using blockchain for fund raising is a good idea as it will help reduce physical contacts, while making donations easy and convenient. Therefore, the world will through this way understand what lies within blockchain, its potentials and the role it will play in the future.

Of course there will be many who want to help victims of Covid-19. Because this virus can spread quickly. If not handled quickly it will expand. The problem lies in the entry and exit of people from one country to another. Covid-19 is detrimental to many countries with flight restrictions.

It will be a great help if the cryptocurrency industry will help on raising funds to somehow help those people who are affected by this situation. It will surely ease the difficulty being put into those that are needy and cannot work outside and earn money due to lockdowns being implemented by the government of different countries. Since we cryptocurrency users can still work from home, why don't we help each other out to lessen the burden of this situation. The fund raising that we can do using blockchain technology is not to cure the Coronavirus but just to help those that are in need in this point of time since many people are affected in which many cannot go out to work and earn an income to sustain their daily life needs. That will be a great help that we can do. But the question is to whom we will be sending out the donations? If we want to help using blockchain technology, we must clearly set or state how the help or fund raising will be implemented.

Money will be needed to fight Coronavirus not coins unless UNICEF and others ask for donations through coins like Bitcoin and others, millionaires and billionaires around the world are donating for the cause in Fiat not in coins

Just hope that blockchain will help it in term to get the best transparency top help all of those people. I don't know about what was the result from this charity. as far as i know there was a lot of parties have already tried to take the advantage from the covid. Some scammers are also creating scam charity for that.

Yes, at this time it is money that is really needed to deal with the corona virus problem, because until now there are still some countries that still apply lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the corona virus, so automatically the basic food items for daily use for the community very needed.

I have read this article about this fundraising was successful, maybe this is a great point of bitcoin in particular and cryptocurrency in general,
You can be anywhere in the world who can easily contribute to a charity.

Will be for blockchain fight covid 19 or corona virus because have community and many people make donation how to make corona virus end soon, now Italy become terrible country in Europe looks bad situation and do not have chance how come back to stop this virus and give blockchain way.

Of course, if it comes to raising funds to fight the coronavirus, then any cryptocurrency user, especially speculators and big whales, should do charity work, allocating a certain amount of cryptocurrency funds to solve the international problem with the epidemic.  Today, virtually every businessman should do his bit to help as much as he can.  But in fact, as I understand it, the question was asked about the blockchain and its ability to influence the solution of the problem by the epidemic.  It seems to me that many medical projects that use blockchain should already be applied and show results.  In addition, the blockchain can be used to store data about coronavirus, data about patients and about patients who recovered and died.  In addition, the blockchain can save and control data on the spread and localization of the epidemic.  I believe that this technology can greatly help in solving specific problems.

 Blockchain has conducted some online activities during the worldwide health crisis to helped people to know their function including some events and important matters regarding their technology. Even more and more confirmed cases of coronavirus they are still fighting against the pandemic by distributing some helps.

I think they need to use blockchain and smart contracts to tag and identify original testing kits and other related products and equipments worldwide because after surge and fear of this virus worldwide fake products are rapidly increasing in the market that will make fighting with this virus even difficult.

This virus has made many countries heavily affected, most of the countries in the world are closed and not accepting tourists. It has caused the worldwide economy collapsed because countries could not exchange with each other, hoping this situation will soon be overcome.

I'd say that this particular idea might not work as you expect it to be, because I feel like if a person wants to fool other people about kits one'll find a way to fool smart contracts.
However, there are plenty other ways to use blockchain in this are and you're right it can be helpful

In as much as I support the use of blockchain technology in the fight against this deadly virus but at the same time we ought to be careful. There are already many coins and projects in respect to this vrius going about of which they are scams; what am trying to point out is that, this current situation of the world is already giving fraudulent individuals ideas on how to steal. So before getting involved with this charity organization, let's endeavour to be sure they are true and genuine, as funds can easily be stolen.

I haven't seen any working health care project in crypto space, many tried to do better but end up a failure and some have dubious intentions just like scammers, I even fell for a scam health project on IMO platform, I lost over 90$

There Virus of COVID-19 is spreading very quickly, this makes countries have already lockdown in order to control the virus spreading. I hope every citizen of their concerned will help the victims, but the virus is based on the immunity power of the affected person. The virus is spreading is quickly we need to be very careful.

The COVID 19 situation has indeed seen the timely application of blockchain technology. Not only in Italy, but also in other parts of the world affected by the coronavirus are now using blockchain platform to mitigate the effect of COVID 19 and at the same time develop a platform to seek aids and relief to other countries.

I am sure that blockchain technologies will help to achieve the desired result in the fight against corona virus because with blockchain technologies any areas are developing much faster and more stable and therefore blockchain technologies will also be able to show themselves well in the fight against corona virus.

significantly we do not yet know the best impact of blockchain to combat this virus. but somehow, this virus has disrupted the world market and economy including the crypto market.

The things that i only see how blockchain technology will help to fight covid-19 is by making a online transation without using physical money because other ways to spread the virus is by passing things that was already touch by an infected person, that is why with the help of blockchain technology it will be convenient and fast for every consumer to make transactions and be safe from the virus.

That will help a lot on the financial system but that will not bring any impact to the other sector than financial sector. That's why some people may feel disagree with the tittle that has already used by the creator of this thread. Blockchain just give an alternative solution and it's not even against covid virus.

This is why you cannot mix profit with charity. Altcoin projects that start up and say they want to help covid research or covid fighting,,, those are all bullshit. If you really want to help, you give money or you give some other kind of resource, that is all you do. Everything else is dishonest and not going to gain traction.

We have a lot of donations from all around the world to the countries that is in need the most. I guess Blockchain is helping a lot especially cryptocurrency that came really handy at this situation.

The Virus that is spread could only be kill if the people have discipline in their country, A lot of people becoming so selfish at this time not following the rules of the government by the given lockdown, fighting the virus would not be easy alone.

European countries still taking the hits heavily and there is no sign yet for the decrease in the numbers.Money is not the main thing needed for them because many governments have enough money so all they need is human power to  serve the affected people and control the spread.As of now Russia sends military forces to Italy to help them and also they are ready to help US in real soon.

Exactly, it’s happening in my country also highly developed countries those are special in medical sectors. 1st COVID-19 affected patient found in march 08 even who arrived from another country provably Italy. Thousands of people are passing airport without any check, now we see it’s consequences. Even there are people who come from other countries they can't ensure social distance. Hospitals are enough but they have no enough medical instruments likes PPE,ICO beds are quite low as far as population.                

I think blockchchain technology can help current pandemic situation but to some extent. I believe, blockchchain technology will be used extensively for such situations in future.
Sheng world project which is related to wellness and Lifestyle, is already developing products like sanitizers to help the situation.

The number of patients is increasing and even during a pandemic like these you will encounter many scammers taking advantage of the situation in the name of raising funds and they might use a blockchain technology to raise funds but that does not mean that they are going to be legit, i have seen plenty of scammers in the market and i am not going to trust a project that wanted to raise money in the pretext of helping someone.

Another person that think that blockchain could be applied for everything.  :D Only doctors and vaccination could help us against COVID-19 disease. Blockchain could only be useful for providing real not censored informations.  ;)

Well blockchain can be used anyway in any situations as long as internet connection and of course power is there.
How was the fund raising going lately? Did it succeed?
With a proper generation of attention through that campaign you're mentioning, I think it would also gain attention to crypto coins as well.

Blockchain created lots of impact during Covid, many exchanges and Blockchain enthusiasts donated protective equipments to the victim countries and this Covid also brought more awareness and recognitions and the lockdown also made people to learn something's about Blockchain. So this Covid practically fought Covid 19

Blockchain won't be used to fight against covid because blockchain is not some kind of vaccine.
But of course, blockchain can be used to collecting money from peoples around the world to donate.
We should careful from charity organizations because most of them are fraud, but it will be good if they are really doing for charity.

The usage of blockchain technology will be totally relevant at this point of time because to be able to resolve this pandemic what we need is a cure, vaccine or medication to end this one. Blockchain technology can just help on fund raising to be able to support or fund people who are working to find the cure to this virus which is most commonly or mainly in the field of medicine and science which are the microbiologist, scientists and anyone related to formulate the cure for the virus. Blockchain technology can help but not directly because a cure is in need and not a project based on technology. But it can help in a sense, but what we really need for now is a direct cure to totally resolve this one.

Blockchain could help in terms of money transfer from different part of the world, so it's a big help but it's not gonna be the main cause on while covid-19 will disappear, we still need the vaccine to end this pandemic, but for now, hopefully the demand for crypto will increase as most establishment are close now while the blockchain, it never sleeps.

Yes I think that it is very unfortunate for Europe because they are currently affected heavily by the said virus and not only them other countries as well is affected by the pandemic. I hope that every people will hold hands to have  a better control for the virus and I hope that they can develop new technology and invest new medicine that will help to have a cure for the virus and I hope that they will gonna give it to the people. I hope that every countries that gets affected heavily by the virus will stand again and I hope that blockchains and cryptocurrencies will gonna help people not just to earn but help them bounce back.

In addition, if blockchain is used in health care, it may help in medical examination, but perhaps this is a long process, and it may help in future pandemics.

With blockchain and cryptocurrency, indeed peoples can donate from anywhere.
But what we often found is only some scammers pretend to be an organization to give charity on covid19 victims.
Unless we can prove they are legit, i guess we won't be able to fight the covid19 disease.

i think block chain will not be able to fight this COVID 19 but instead it can help if they will develop a device under blockchain that can track those who are having symptoms

Many are yet to fully understand the usefulness and impact of blockchain technology in our society and maybe the world in general. @Blackdeath actually nailed the point. That is one area in which blockchain technology can be very useful. On the other hand, it could be futuristic. Whatever is happening now can be recorded on the blockchain, that is, the data and from such data collated, inferences can be drawn from it, which can be used to provide solution. I think the scientists and medical personnel who are researches will understand this

If you are advocating to use block chain to crowd fund Covid-19 responses that's cool and can be achieved. Because blockchain is transparent and people can see their contribution. Apparently assembling experienced and trusted team is essential.

BY covid -19 most infected countries right now are in trouble to supply the necessary medicine and essential equipment . I believe , in near future controlling by data through blockchain technology it will make the process more transparent and easy for us for sure . Then the blockchain adoption take the highest rank. I think its not the right time for blockchain to involve in this situation of the world , maybe in the future as a pre-preparation blockchain will be in heroic position . Thanks

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Introduction
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Intact blockchain is a very good means to fight against Covid19 as of today. Since we are all trying to reduce the level of contacts that we are having with ourselves, then there is no better way to operate than using blockchain technology. Transactions can be made through blockchain instead of violating the ban placed on movements.

Yes, I also think the same thing as you said. Because a transparent blockchain system can help with good performance. The blockchain system can be relied on in terms of transaction security systems. When talking about scammers, I think it depends on who the culprit is. If a blockchain system that is transparent can be scams, then a system that is not transparent will be more scams.

There are a lot of project in the healthcare sector on blockchain , at least we could have seen some help from them at this to give a good representing of the blockchain community. But majority are not functioning.