Unicef (United Nations Children's Fund), or otherwise the Fund for the children of the United Nations, is asking for the help of gamers everywhere to help the children from Syria.
The Syrian civil war has raged for nearly seven years and killed tens of millions people. The survivors of the violent conflict and especially the children, either remained in their country displaced and helpless or left to become refugees. With the country's basic services collapsed, survivors need the support of the international community just to survive.
The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) believes that gamers around the world can help by collecting digital coins.
On February 2, the head of the humanitarian aid program launched the Game Chaingers -a fundraising initiative that aims to use blockchain technology to raise money for Syrian children. The design is simple. UNICEF invites gamers to connect their graphics cards to the blockchain to start mining by picking up Ethereum, for charity.
To create the new digital currencies through the process known as "mining," users dedicate their computers to doing complex math in order to trade their service for some cryptocurrency. The powerful graphics cards that gamers use to run the latest ones satisfactorily gameα, είναι ιδιαίτερα κατάλληλες για την εκτέλεση αυτών των εργασιών.
The Game Chaingers initiative is the result partnership between UNICEF and the French Advertising Agency BETC.
Players who want to participate should go to his website Game Chaingers, install the Claymore mining program, and let their graphics card do the work. Their machines will contribute to the existing one Ethermine mining, and the payments will be held at UNICEF. Like any good game video, Game Chaingers will track the player's stats. According to UNICEF, so far 513 miners have raised over €1.400, and users with the name 'ANTONYMOUS' are at the top of the charts having done the most work.
Users can of course also donate directly to Unicef in cash or in cryptocurrency, instead of spending electricity to produce cryptocurrency. Game Chaingers is part of a wider trend of charities and non-profits using blockchain technology to help people.
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