Last weekend, the annual fashion event "Bazaar Charity Night" once again dominated the Weibo hot search list. The 2019 Bazaar Charity Night, with the theme of "Educating the Future with Charity", broke through the previous style and presented it in the form of a concert, and invited many first-line celebrities and popular idols, such as Carina Lau, Shu Qi, Xiao Zhan, Yi Yanqianxi, etc. Celebrities came to share their charity ideas with everyone and called on everyone to show their love. On the night of the event, more than 20 hot searches on Weibo, 36.67 million live broadcast likes, 27 guest performers, more than 100 staff members and countless caring people from the society helped on-site, and received a total of nearly 26 million yuan in donations. Behind this string of numbers is the philanthropic enthusiasm of the vast number of caring people that has never faded.
This is the 17th year of Bazaar's charity activities. The money raised will be used for the "Bazaar One Hour After School" charity project. As of October 2019, "Bazaar One Hour After Class" has carried out the hardware construction and course configuration of more than 200 school aesthetic education classrooms in more than 10 provinces and regions, and also cooperated with the Alipay Ant Blockchain team in "World Reading During the "Day" period, the Wisdom Book Corner---Love Bookcase was established. According to reports, each donated book in this bookcase is "registered" using the blockchain, and donors can check the flow of books and monitor the use of donations.
With the development of Internet technology, the scale, scene, radiation scope and influence of public welfare have been expanded unprecedentedly. For charities to receive sustained support, they must have credibility. "Blockchain + public welfare" gradually promotes public welfare into a new mainstream. The decentralized model of the blockchain not only deconstructs the traditional charity donation method and solves the trust problem, but also promotes the development of public welfare behaviors in the direction of fragmentation, small amounts, and normalization, so that the social influence of public welfare is constantly being strengthened. enlarge.
Love on the chain: using technology to help public welfare
In the past few years, some "black swan" incidents broke out in the public welfare and charity industry, and public welfare information is not transparent and public, which is the biggest question of public opinion on public welfare organizations and the public welfare industry. Kindness is consumed, the foundation of trust collapses, and the credibility of formal charities is gradually being lost.
Fortunately, public welfare projects supported by blockchain technology have solved the problem of the "last mile" of publicizing donations, created a transparent, safe, and open environment for the public welfare industry, and brought new innovations to the industry model. We can see that many Internet companies have begun to embrace blockchain technology in different ways.
Trace the source
Since all transactions in the blockchain are open and transparent, and each node will receive and record it on the ledger, this makes the blockchain have a traceability function. With this feature, the blockchain has become an important means of charity.
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Purchasing issued cryptocurrencies through the blockchain platform or using other cryptocurrencies to make donations is the earliest record of public welfare introducing blockchain.
With the support of blockchain technology, Binance Charity Foundation has developed and launched the world's first fully transparent donation system. All donations and donations are in the form of digital currency, which will be displayed on the chain and cannot be tampered with .
Brian Armstrong, founder and CEO of the American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, announced the establishment of a cryptocurrency-supported charitable organization "Givecrypto,org", using cryptocurrencies to help the poor around the world, and once again played a practical role in the field of philanthropy.
Although this road is not as easy as imagined, it is full of challenges on this road of exploration: for example, how to let people in uneducated areas understand the concept of blockchain, how to practice blockchain in areas with no network connection... …But when the blockchain is combined with the traditional charity industry, more and more people’s understanding of the blockchain tends to be rational and correct, and it still gives confidence and encouragement to many companies. They all hope that blockchain technology can become a driving force for the transparency of public welfare, and put their love on the chain and pass it on forever.
Odaily "2019Odaily FAT Blockchain Award" ----- "Annual Blockchain Charity Focus Event" selection has officially started, and blockchain companies are not far behind on the road of public welfare and charity. Fulfill a promise, assume a responsibility, and keep a dedication. Their journey of exploration has a long way to go. From a multi-dimensional perspective, we will talk about the dawn of a new era of public welfare brought by those "daring to undertake" enterprises and the blockchain.
