Summary This article is an attempt to flesh out the persistent question of proof of work (PoW) consensus - specifically bitcoin mining - and its environmental impact. After outlining a few caveats as well as framing a historical background, we divide the argument into two broad considerations. First, we address
This is the first of an multi-part series examining the way that charity evaluators reach their decisions on measuring charitable impact. The intent is for the Fugue Foundation to better understand the process in an effort to build out its effective altruism API [https://github.com/fuguefoundation/ff-api]. Future iterations
The Fugue Foundation is actively developing a few open source projects, which combine together to create an Ethereum-based donation platform guided by the principles of effective altruism. This diagram depicts the basic flow. When a user visits the decentralized application (dApp), the page queries a dataset of nonprofit organizations through
Let's play a game: Answer a few questions and get a reward. Simple enough, right? Let's keep that in mind as we talk about how the game is played. The following sentence explains the process, but it may also include some words that are unfamiliar to
Altruism seems like the right place to start. And this will be but one view of altruism as seen from 30,000 feet above. To give with abandonment, to care beyond what is reasonably expected, to fulfill the needs of another for reasons and motivations that are not immediately clear: