{"id":606,"date":"2021-04-19T07:38:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T07:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2021-04-19T07:38:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T07:38:54","slug":"helperbit-announces-project-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/2021\/04\/19\/helperbit-announces-project-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Helperbit announces project closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear users and friends,<\/p>\n<p>Five years have passed since the Helperbit kick-off, and this marks the end of the startup status.<\/p>\n<p>Helperbit was born in response to a lack of transparency in donation management, offering the non-profit world safe and transparent bitcoin fundraising tools.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, our tools helped during critical calamities such as the central Italy earthquake in 2016 and the dramatic initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Helperbit fostered crypto donations to many small projects too, helping them boost their activities in a wide range of verticals, from disability to education.<\/p>\n<p>We are proud of the generated social impact, acknowledged in the years by awards and honorable public mentions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the startup has not achieved economic sustainability, and this forces us to close the project.<\/p>\n<p>From today, sign-ups are closed, and it is no longer possible to create new fundraising projects. Registered organizations and users have <b>30 days (May 20, 2021)<\/b> to withdraw their funds and transfer them to their wallets or exchanges. Eventually, we can assist with fund transfer operations.<\/p>\n<p>After 30 days, it will be no longer possible to access the platform, but users can transfer funds through the <a href=\"https:\/\/helperbit.github.io\/wallet-recovery\/\">tool<\/a> deployed in Github.<\/p>\n<p>We will keep users\u2019 and organizations\u2019 documentation for the time required by the law, with the same high-level security standard used in the past years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:info@helperbit.com\">info@helperbit.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear users and friends, Five years have passed since the Helperbit kick-off, and this marks the end of the startup status. Helperbit was born in response to a lack of transparency in donation management, offering the non-profit world safe and transparent bitcoin fundraising tools. In recent years, our tools helped during critical calamities such as <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/2021\/04\/19\/helperbit-announces-project-closure\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.helperbit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}