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Vitalik Buterin Puts Money Against Disease

Post author By Beth Holmes
Post date March 13, 2023

Vitalik Buterin has donated $15 million in cryptocurrency to UC San Diego to fund research into airborne pathogens like COVID-19.

Vitalik Buterin has donated $15 million in cryptocurrency to the University of California San Diego to fund research into airborne pathogens like COVID-19. The Balvi Filanthropic Fund is the actual source of the donation, but it is directed entirely by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. It was founded in 2022 to handle another of Buterin’s donations, […]

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