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Topic: [2014-03-08] $46K cryptocurrency donation for Alcor LEF (cryonics) (Read 574 times)

hero member
Activity: 742
Merit: 500

What a waste.

Could have donated that to http://www.sens.org/

SENS at some point were looking into accepting Bitcoin. This would have been a nice push.



I gently tried to get SENS interested a couple of years ago and was rebuffed.
For a group who specifically lamented the funding problems and attitudes regarding life extension research - I found their lack of vision in this area ironic.


Word from them last December was that they got a lot of requests about this and were looking into it.

legendary
Activity: 1092
Merit: 1001

What a waste.

Could have donated that to http://www.sens.org/

SENS at some point were looking into accepting Bitcoin. This would have been a nice push.



I gently tried to get SENS interested a couple of years ago and was rebuffed.
For a group who specifically lamented the funding problems and attitudes regarding life extension research - I found their lack of vision in this area ironic.

hero member
Activity: 742
Merit: 500

What a waste.

Could have donated that to http://www.sens.org/

SENS at some point were looking into accepting Bitcoin. This would have been a nice push.

legendary
Activity: 1092
Merit: 1001
Looks like they failed the test.

A cryonics organisation that decided to hold *none* of the donation in cryptocurrency form?  That's not the future-tech company I want to freeze my brain with.


sr. member
Activity: 476
Merit: 250
Bytecoin: 8VofSsbQvTd8YwAcxiCcxrqZ9MnGPjaAQm
http://www.alcor.org/blog/androklis-polymenis-donates-1-million-nxt-alcor/

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Androklis Polymenis, a digital currency entrepreneur, has recently donated 1 million NXT coins to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation located in Scottsdale, Arizona.

After Alcor converted the 1 million NXT coin donation by Polymenis to bitcoins (and then to dollars) the end result was an approximately $46,000 donation to Alcor. The donation will be used to enhance marketing efforts, special projects and continued day to day operations at Alcor.
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