Apr 05, 2017 at 15:01 // News

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On April 1, Coinidol closed the voting on which charity organization should get the $1,000* in Bitcoin of scammers’ money, and the crypto community has chosen BitGive.

On March 20th, the public trial of Jawad Yaqub was closed and the community decided to send the scammers’ money to charity. Coinidol asked the crypto community to suggest which charity organization should get the donation of $1,000* in BTC (according to the exchange rate on March 7, 2017, when funds were transferred to the multisignature wallet).

The majority of our readers (26.92%) and jury members (71%) suggested sending these funds to BitGive , a non-profit organization.

BitGive was founded in 2013 and since then has built a positive philanthropic representative organization for the Bitcoin and Blockchain industry, bridging the gap between an innovative technology and its practical applications for nonprofits and humanitarian work in the developing world.

Jury members, who voted to send money to BitGive:

- Stephen DeMeulenaere, Co-Founder of Coin Academy,

- Ivan Tikhonov, Founder of Bits.media,

- Mike Lorrey, co-creator of the cryptocurrency BitGold, a predecessor of Bitcoin,

- Eric Grill, CEO of CoinOutlet, a Bitcoin ATM company,

- Rupert Hackett, Board Director of the Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association.

Jury members, who abstained from voting:

- Bas Wisselink, Co-Founder at the NXT Foundation,

- Aleksandar Matanovic, Co-Founder of the Serbian Bitcoin Association.

The results of readers vote:





During the open vote, we also received several suggestions of other charity organizations where we could send funds to: Legambiente (11.54% of all votes), and The Crimean regional public organization "Association of people with disabilities" (3.85% of all votes).

Unfortunately, the majority of votes for “another charity organization” (15.38% of all votes) left no suggestion of the charity organization they had chosen in comments. Thus, the votes for “another charity organization” that did not specify the name of the charitable organization in the comments are deemed not valid and are not allowed to be considered.

Coinidol’s team thanks all the participants of the open votes and for all your suggestions on which charity to send the money to.

The funds will be sent to BitGive, Bitcoin address 1PEoUKNxTZsc5rFSQvQjeTVwDE9vEDCRWm. The funds will be sent from the multi-signature address: 3EZ7DhAbwmzx7xFjfyhsoFDA3ZTmy6cQeS, which now contains the funds that Coinidol received from scammers. You can follow the movement of these funds.

* The amount in fiat may vary due to Bitcoin price volatility on the cryptocurrency market. The funds of $1,000 USD were transferred from fiat to Bitcoin on March 7, 2017.