Bringing Clean Water To Communities That Need It With Bitcoin
By Renata Rodrigues

You don’t need to understand bitcoin’s underlying technology to witness the impact it can make on the lives of those in need. The face of philanthropy is changing for the better and Bitcoin is the catalyst. Bitcoin’s intrinsic properties of transparency and efficiency offer a great opportunity to nonprofit organizations to improve their practices and their ability to bring in new donors.
Agua x Vida is a nonprofit organization, powered by bitcoin, that provides access to clean and safe water to communities in Africa. Before using Bitcoin, the nonprofit was losing up to 20% of the donations to fees through traditional money transfer services. Agua x Vida is now not only being more efficient when transferring money but also opening their presence to more donors.

🎨 Art & Spirituality

How Bitcoin And Art Will Free The People
By Stefan Dzeparoski

Bitcoin and art have a lot more in common than what you might think. They both are individually liberating and inherently disruptive. Bitcoin and art are both symbolic, a representation of an idea, an ideology of freedom.
The Bitcoin ideology is like a good work of art. It is a masterpiece that people, after contemplating it, wants to share with the rest of the world. The idea of freedom is larger than the response to predatory and mechanical structures of the fiat system and fiat institutions.
Bitcoin is the final and majestic representation of the harmony between mathematics, cryptography and code that proposes a new definition of not just monetary freedom, but a definition of freedom in and of itself. Bitcoin is the ultimate artwork.

📰 The Daily Bits

💻 Running Nodes

Erlay Makes It Easier To Run A Bitcoin Node
By Marty Bent

After years of discussion, reviewing and testing, a massive breakthrough in distributed network engineering is getting to the point where Bitcoin nodes can begin to signal their support for a new transaction relay protocol.
Erlay is a change to the transaction relay protocol at the peer-to-peer layer where full nodes communicate and share data about the transactions that have been broadcast to the network. This change will enable Bitcoin to become a more robust, reliable and private network. It will bring material bandwidth efficiency gains to this peer-to-peer layer and ultimately make it easier for more people to run full nodes.

MEME OF THE DAY

By Bekka