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Twitter CEO Donates $1M to Coin Center
Dorsey's gift is the latest in a stream of donations to Coin Center.
By Zack Voell
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 12:10 p.m. Published Feb 10, 2021, 7:28 p.m.
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Jack Dorsey donated $1 million to cryptocurrency policy think tank Coin Center, per a tweet announcement from the organizations director Jerry Brito.
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- The donation comes amid Grayscale's donations campaign for Coin Center offering to match up to $1 million in donations on top of an additional $1 million gift from Grayscale. Grayscale is a CoinDesk sister company.
- "Thank you for your incredible work," Dorsey told Brito on Twitter.
- These donations are the latest in a flood of support for the Washington, D.C.-based organization. In late December, crowdsourced donations on Gitcoin and other gifts from crypto companies saw hundreds of thousands of dollars gifted to Coin Center.
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