Bitkind: Fundraising for Nonprofits

We cut costs, solved problems, didn’t quit. Still back real volunteers and charities, respect to changemakers. Founder: “Even if only I alone will support the projects and people on Bitkind, it’s okay. I made my own website where I can help people in need, the rest is noise”.

@niccruzpatane Curious to know where the workers went… Hope, they weren’t fired and didn’t lose jobs.

This isn’t China. This is Long Beach, California. Over 100 transport containers move autonomously between quayside cranes, storage yards, and rail transfer points. The vehicles can achieve a maximum speed of 13 mph, and can transport containers that are up to 70 tonnes.

Bitkind was built to remind people that good still exists. That even in the chaos, there are people who care. We can’t lose that. Because what’s left if we do? Thank you for helping us stay online this month. With reduced bills, we can survive. – The Bitkind Team

If this project dies unseen, maybe that’s the real failure, not ours alone, but of the hope that crypto could be more than coins and protocols. That it could be kind. Human. A place where stories still matter.

Support Needed: Keep Bitkind.org Alive We’ve slashed our infrastructure costs from ~$500 to ~$45/month. That’s across many services, databases, and tools.

Gm, something is coming here

Friends, we got reports the donation widget isn’t working with MetaMask. Our volunteer dev looked into it, seems it’s due to a MetaMask API update. Don’t have a dedicated team, but will find time in the next couple days to fix it.

The website is back online - thanks for your patience! We’re not a big company or a well-funded organization. Bitkind is entirely built and maintained by volunteers. If you appreciate our work, you can support us with a crypto donation. Thank you!

Don’t want to shut it down…

No more news coverage. We’re shifting focus to what truly matters: stories and videos that inspire kindness. Starting with the incredible Vietnamese charity community. Filming has begun. Daily videos drop in 3 weeks. Stay tuned.

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@paulg Doing things that aren’t mainstream is hard. You build something meaningful, but still go unnoticed because real value needs loud voices or strong connections to be seen.

Especially when you're young, beware of dismissing some things you're curious about as unimportant. You risk pruning off outliers if you do that. A lot of great discoveries have come from investigating things everyone else thought were unimportant.

@andy8052 @jessepollak Totally fair take. But maybe the missing piece isn’t the tech but the intent. If onchain content focused more on human impact (education, charity, open knowledge), would the vibe feel different?

It’s a combo of a few things but I have extremely minimal desire to collect these things, I think that on the scale of cool permissionless things you can do on a blockchain coining content is low on the pole of things that can positively change the world, and idk just the vibe feels off to me as well

I am so incredibly uninterested in onchain content creation

@jessepollak @Farcaster @zora You mention Zora a lot… just wondering, do charity builders on @base get the same spotlight? Or is the focus only on top commercial projects that fit the feed?

this is why we've been so focused on @farcaster from the beginning and continue to double down: it's a hot bed of creators (eg posters) and builders (eg miniapp devs) it's also why we are relentlessly working to grow the pie of who and what you can create, eg with @zora

to be explicit: the north star for @base is to grow the number of builders and creators onchain creators and builders then generate the supply of use cases, content, etc that will onboard everyone else everything we do is in this pursuit

@jessepollak @base Do you only support friends and people you know, or is there a way for projects like ours to reach out? We’re building something unique on Base, but not sure how to get on your radar.

#1 priority for me in 2025 is helping builders and creators succeed on @base better tools more funding viral distribution repeat 🔁 still day one of rebuilding the internet