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by trevyn 1677 days ago
Because there exist people who will donate crypto but not "normal money".

Same reason why there are charities that accept cars, canned food, christmas trees, etc.

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That kinda just reinforces the point though that all of this cryptononsense is a scam. Sure, here's a group exploiting Bitcoin Iditiots LLC for a good cause, but they're still exploiting.
It's completely orthogonal to whatever you believe about crypto.
The preface to your link was:

> We're just starting to rebuild critical functions using new ways of thinking. One of my favorite examples:

Which I think any rational person would take to mean that you believe the linked project was enabled to do something revolutionary[0] by the technology of cryptocurrencies. But that isn't what the project does. The technology of cryptocurrencies is irrelevant to what they do, it's the hype they're taking advantage of.

[0] "new ways of thinking".