Woah! This article is about @Geyser! Very cool to see, @metamick quoted:

Michele said those community partners have already helped direct 12 million satoshis, worth approximately £5,600 at the time of publication, to projects in their own communities. That is equivalent to 0.12 bitcoin, since 100 million satoshis make up one bitcoin. He acknowledged that the model is still new and the available data remains limited.

Bitcoin allows funds to move across borders without a platform holding them or a beneficiary passing them on. Risks around wallet security, access and exchange rates remain.

"Traditional crowdfunding platforms are regulated and because they move money across borders they have to comply with anti-money laundering rules and sanctions," he explained. "The problem is that those rules often end up affecting legitimate opposition groups, legitimate non-profits and ordinary people, rather than only the governments they were intended to target."

Great article by DecentraSuze!