Cryptocurrency Round-Up: ‘Bitcoin Against Ebola’ and Bill Nye Wants Bitcoin in his Watch

Ghana-based charity launches Bitcoin Against Ebola campaign and Bill Nye talks about bitcoin(IBTimes UK)

The price of bitcoin has continued to see signs of improvement, with a further 2% rise in value over the last 24 hours.

Most other major cryptocurrencies have also seen positive market movement, albeit marginal. Litecoin, dogecoin, peercoin, namecoin and darkcoin all rose in value by between 1% and 4.5% since yesterday.

The biggest mover across all markets is scotcoin. The unofficial national cryptocurrency of Scotland saw its price surge by over 100% to take its market capitalisation above $50,000.

A Ghana-based charity has launched a bitcoin donations hub to help fight the recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.

Bitcoin Against Ebola was set up by BeamRemit

Bitcoin Against Ebolawas set up by BeamRemit with the intention of reducingthe amount of money lost to fees through traditional fiat currency donations.

"We just couldn't stand the fact that over 15% of the money charities were sending to Sierra Leone to help their country was being spent on transaction fees," Falk Benke, chief technology officer of BeamRemit, told HumanIPO.

"People send us Bitcoin and we convert it to the local currency (SLL) and put it into the Splash account of the recipient. This can be individuals and charities featured on our website."

"I want bitcoin in my analog watch"

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Cryptocurrency Round-Up: 'Bitcoin Against Ebola' and Bill Nye Wants Bitcoin in his Watch