Crypto Promotes Charity in Rwanda With New School in Rwanda

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Published Dec 03, 2018 10:30AM ET

Updated Dec 03, 2018 12:01PM ET

Crypto Promotes Charity in Rwanda With New School in Rwanda

Peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace Paxful said it has completed the construction of a second school in Rwanda funded entirely by Bitcoin under its #BuiltwithBitcoin initiative, a project aimed at connecting nodes of focused learning via a distributed financial system across the emerging world.

In a statement sent to Cryptovest, the company said the school’s curricula would reintroduce the trivium quadrivium and focus on true financial and technology literacy, adding they see the initiative more as civilization building than charity.

“We encourage the cryptocurrency sector to contribute more to humanitarian projects. The #BuiltWithBitcoin initiative is an example of bitcoin being used as more than a speculative tool but a testament to the usefulness of cryptocurrency,” said Ray Youseff, the CEO and co-founder of Paxful. “To date, we have built two schools - a nursery, and a primary school in Rw...


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