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In just five weeks since the GoodDollar basic income wallet and protocol was launched, on September 7, there have been almost half-a-million total successful claims. And this Monday’s total of 430,066 is some 105,727 more than last Monday’s figure of 324,339. Given the impressive rate of adoption of GoodDollar and the rising number of claims, we might break one-million claims before December.
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The coronavirus pandemic will push 115 million people into extreme poverty – including scores of “new poor” who are relatively well educated in the cities of middle-income countries – this year, according to the latest calculations by the World Bank. “We are likely to see people who previously escaped poverty falling back into it, as well as people who have never been poor falling into poverty for the first time,” said Carolina Sánchez-Páramo, Global Director of the bank’s Poverty and Equity division. Nearly 7 per cent of the world’s population will be living on less than $1.90 a day – the threshold of “extreme poverty” – by 2030, the bank added.
This coming Saturday, October 17, marks the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The theme for 2020 is “acting together to achieve social and environmental justice for all”. How are you going to help? Join the #EndPoverty global campaign.
Hollywood actor, filmmaker and humanitarian activist Angelina Jolie has written an explosive article for Time magazine that takes aim at unbalanced systems that have enabled inequality, in its many forms, to deepen over many years. “These problems cannot be blamed entirely on the coronavirus,” she writes. “While the virus has inflamed inequalities in societies, it did not create them. Humans – not disease – are responsible for unjust laws and systems, and racial and social inequality.”
As MetaMask – a browser extension that allows users to interact with the Ethereum network and its wide range of smart contract-based DeFi applications – surpasses one million, it’s encouraging that, according to CoinDesk, “developing countries lead in MetaMask adoption. India, Nigeria and the Philippines are the countries with most MetaMask usage after the United States.”
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