Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donates US$4 million cryptocurrency coins to UNSW Sydney to detect early signs of pandemic

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UNSW Sydney has received the largest known cryptocurrency donation to date from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin worth US$4 million cryptocurrency coins to a higher education institution, which will support an open-source tool providing pandemic early warning signals. The four million dollars cryptocurrency coin will be used to establish the Shiba Inu OSINT Initiative. The cryptocurrency is from Buterin’s Balvi Filantropic Fund. UNSW’s Kirby Institute managed the funding. The crypto gift, which has been converted to $5.3 million, will support the development of Epiwatch, an open-source intelligence tool ... (full story)