Crypto genius gives a billion dollars worth of joke coin for India covid relief

Vitalik Buterin, the 27-year-old founder of Ethereum, on Wednesday donated cryptocurrency worth $1 billion to support covid-19 relief work in India, possibly the single-largest philanthropic contribution to help covid-stricken Indians from any country or individual.

Buterin, the billionaire wunderkind who founded the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world after Bitcoin, made the donation to the India Covid Crypto Relief Fund, run by Indian crypto entrepreneur Sandeep Nailwal.

And in doing so, he brought together the disparate worlds of emergency medical relief and meme coins. How the donation will play out and reach the intended beneficiaries over the next few weeks will also be watched keenly by the crypto community around the world.