UNICEF (United Nations International Emergency Relief Fund) 39, childhood) is launching a new kind of charity for Syrian children.

The two-month charity campaign that began February 2, dubbed Game Chaingers, is for gamers who use high-end graphics cards that can extract cryptocurrency. turning cards into "humanitarian tool [s]:"

"Today, humanitarian collections often solicit the same people with the same methods, but cryptocurrencies and their revolutionary approach are an opportunity to raise funds differently.Have you heard about Bitcoin? The Ethereum is the same except that you can more easily "exploit" the Ethereum parts via your computer and that money will go directly into the portfolio of UNICEF. "

Donations work as follows: Players who take a break from their computers or go to sleep can activate the progr UNICEF's Ethereum Miner Mine, thus giving without giving anything other than access to the processing power of their computer.

"Through mining, we create an opportunity for those who can not give or have never had the opportunity to do so. "

Game Chaingers statistics are currently showing a total of 360 contributors, 44 of which are currently active at the time of the press, who have collected nearly 900 euros of donations for humanitarian aid to Syrian children.

According to the information on the project of the website, 8.3 million children in Syria and neighboring countries need a vital emergency aid . UNICEF will use the Ethereum donated to give these children access to water, education, and health and hygiene services.

This is not the first time that UNICEF thinks to mix cryptocurrencies and humanitarian aid.

In January 2017, UNICEF presented "Donercoin" at Blockchain Week in London, a Blockchain-based program aimed at creating transparency in global aid by digitizing donations.

More recently, in August 2017, UNICEF Ventures of the main organization, began testing Ethereum-based smart contracts also to improve the transparency of asset transfers

] Pineapple Fund, a Bitcoin charity founded by an anonymous donor, has also made significant donations in Bitcoin to a number of philanthropic organizations in recent months. According to their website, the fund plans to donate a total of $ 86 million to charitable organizations.