If you've been following news of the immense market cap growth of cryptocurrency (and lets face it, how could you be on Steemit and not?), you may have seen Vitalik Buterins (One of Ethereums founders) post around 500 billion...
Now as the cryptocurrency market cap closes in on a jaw dropping 1 trillion dollars, these same concerns only ring louder. With shouts of MOON and HODL drowning out a lot of meaningful conversation about the tech, we risk losing sight of the true society changing possibilities of blockchain and decentralized technology.
That's why I believe Giveth, the project run by Griff Green and his team is a deeply under-appreciated and much needed antidote to the rampant speculation and price fever that's plagued the markets over this wild price run up.
Giveth is about decentralizing charitable giving. The implications of this are huge and potentially paradigm shifting for society. Currently projects like Charitywatch literally have to watch charities to make sure that they actually deliver on their promises to help people, instead of wasting funds on a bloated advertising budget or straight up embezzling the funds.
Now imagine a world where that didn't happen. Where you could not only have immense transparency about where every dollar of your donations went, but had a say in what part of the charity that money went to. That's the kind of world Giveth and it's team are trying to build.
Perhaps you're not that excited about charitable giving and altruism...perhaps you really are in it just for the money. To you I have this to say: