Dr. Melyn McKay 🐍 (@melynmckay) 's Twitter Profile
Dr. Melyn McKay 🐍

@melynmckay

Anthropologist, etc. Academic and social interests include Myanmar rice wine and women behaving badly. Building tech solutions to improve aid. Views my own.

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linkhttp://www.linkedin.com/company/coalapay calendar_today10-10-2008 18:03:16

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Class is in session πŸŽ“ Enroll into Blockchain 101 to discover the most compelling use cases of blockchain for nonprofits and best practices for engaging web3 donors with Drew Simon, Dr. Melyn McKay 🐍, Brock (@breadcat on farcaster), & Steven Aguiar of Givepact. πŸ“Join the Zoom:

Class is in session πŸŽ“

Enroll into Blockchain 101 to discover the most compelling use cases of blockchain for nonprofits and best practices for engaging web3 donors with <a href="/DWSimon/">Drew Simon</a>, <a href="/MelynMcKay/">Dr. Melyn McKay 🐍</a>, <a href="/BrockMcBreadcat/">Brock (@breadcat on farcaster)</a>, &amp; Steven Aguiar of <a href="/give_pact/">Givepact</a>.

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We just saved an institutional partner 25% on their payments to local first responders in one of the *hardest* humanitarian responses in the world. There are many real world use cases for blockchain - we should be doing more to support the projects pursuing them.

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Onboarded an elderly priest who runs a shelter in rural Mexico to CoalaPay.org a few weeks ago. He’s received a grant payment from a large INGO, so we called to walk him through his first offramping. His feedback: β€œMΓ‘s fΓ‘cil y mΓ‘s rΓ‘pido de lo que pensΓ©". πŸ’ͺ🏼 🐨

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Cheering on our amazing team en route to AidEx Events. CoalaPay.org have the rare privilege of being part of both the aid and blockchain communities so we are delighted this event brings both together. Good luck to all the amazing teams!

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Miss the Onchain Giving Summit? Check out the recording of our Web3 Use Cases for Nonprofits panel! πŸŽ“ Learn the compelling blockchain use cases for nonprofits and best practices for engaging web3 donors with insights from @dwsimon, Dr. Melyn McKay 🐍, Brock (@breadcat on farcaster), and

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Lost faith in crypto because of memecoins? This might make you feel better: I spoke with an aid worker from the Danish Refugee Council who uses a crypto payments company to send funds to Sudan, which is experiencing the worst famine since the 1980s and a collapsed central bank

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Can safely say I never expected to attend an L2 Hardfork Party. Happy to hear what brought me (& CoalaPay.org) to blockchain remains popular - getting money safely and quickly to people in the really hard places. Congrats mareko.eth | Celo L2 πŸ¦‡πŸŒ³ Rene β—˜ πŸ¦‡πŸŒ³ & the entire Celo.eth/acc πŸ¦‡ 🌳 network!

Can safely say I never expected to attend an L2 Hardfork Party. Happy to hear what brought me (&amp; <a href="/coalapay/">CoalaPay.org</a>) to blockchain remains popular - getting money safely and quickly to people in the really hard places. Congrats <a href="/marek_/">mareko.eth | Celo L2 πŸ¦‡πŸŒ³</a> <a href="/RegenRene/">Rene β—˜ πŸ¦‡πŸŒ³</a> &amp; the entire <a href="/Celo/">Celo.eth/acc πŸ¦‡ 🌳</a> network!
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When you're working in a humanitarian context, and you have pressing real world issues you need to solve, it's difficult to find the time to learn a new technology like blockchain. bit.ly/4c5uES4 cc Funding The Commons

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There are many fundraisers floating around but this one is for those in the web3 community who want to get funds to those in Myanmar directly and with full traceability: quake.myanmarblockchainrelief.org

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This group is set up to receive USDC donations on Ethereum L1 and multiple Ethereum L2s like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, as well as Polygon PoS Friendly competition - which L2 can raise the most funds?

This group is set up to receive USDC donations on Ethereum L1 and multiple Ethereum L2s like <a href="/arbitrum/">Arbitrum</a>, <a href="/Optimism/">Optimism</a>, <a href="/base/">Base</a>, as well as <a href="/0xPolygon/">Polygon</a> PoS

Friendly competition - which L2 can raise the most funds?