THE HASH: Ukraine Launches Website for NFT Donations and More
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, April 29, 2022.
"The Hash" hosts discuss the Ukrainian government's newest initiative to use non-fungible token (NFT) donations in the war against Russia. Also, Panama's new crypto law and private equity investment firm Apollo's new hire for its digital asset division.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the hash podcast. |
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| 0:25.1 | Happy Friday, Hash Friends. |
| 0:27.7 | We're in the three box on a beautiful Friday. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Jen Sanasi. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm joined by Tyrone Ross and Will Foxley. |
| 0:35.8 | If you are watching us, you are watching on Coin Desk TV. And if you're listening, |
| 0:40.0 | we're on the Coin Desk podcast network. I get to start the show today. It's just, you know, |
| 0:46.0 | a top heavy gen day. So we're going straight to the Ukraine. Ukraine's government has launched a |
| 0:53.6 | website where people can donate and buy NFTs in order to raise Ukraine. Ukraine's government has launched a website where people can donate and buy |
| 0:56.2 | NFTs in order to raise funds for their war efforts. So you'll remember that Ukraine launched |
| 1:01.4 | its own NFT collection at the end of March. Now those NFTs are not on this website, but the |
| 1:06.4 | government said a second drop is planned for May. Tyrone, I'm passing this down to you. Ukraine has really |
| 1:14.8 | leveraged crypto and NFTs to raise money for their efforts. I think it's a really interesting |
| 1:21.0 | era we're in if we look at the history of crypto to see how people are so easily able to use assets and methods to get |
| 1:31.2 | money to the Ukraine in such horrible times. What did you take away from the story? So we always look |
| 1:37.9 | for use cases, right? And I tweeted earlier this week that I'm warming up to NFTs. I did a podcast |
| 1:42.6 | episode on it. But I think this is |
| 1:45.4 | exactly what we want to see from this technology. One, the rallying of a community around a cause to |
| 1:50.4 | help other people. That's what we all came to crypto for. Secondly, the power of NFTs and what you're |
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