How and Why to Donate Cryptocurrency​

In order to receive a receipt with your donation, you must enter your email when prompted to in our widget. You will automatically receive a receipt from receipts@thegivingblock.com as soon as the transaction is confirmed on the blockchain. This differs depending on the blockchain — you can refer to this guide for more information.

You can generate a wallet address by using our widget.

1. Choose the currency you wish to donate.
2. Put in any amount for the pledge (don’t worry — receipts will match the actual amount donated).
3. Enter your donor information or choose to donate anonymously.

Once you reach the third page, the widget will generate a dynamic wallet address you can use to complete your donation.

When using The Giving Block widget you’ll notice that a new wallet address is created every time. This is because The Giving Block uses dynamic wallet addresses. This is done to protect both your privacy and ours by preventing third parties from viewing all of your transaction history simply by copying and pasting the wallet address or TXID into a block explorer.

All addresses that are generated are associated with your donor information and ours forever. This means that you can reuse the address as often as you’d like or you can generate a new one each time. It’s up to you. In some cases, users want to re-use an address because they’ve added it as a payout address in an app or smart contract. Note that for ETH, after the first donation is sent the address is converted to a smart contract.

Yes, of course! However, if you’d like to receive a tax receipt, you must enter your email address when prompted on the third page of the widget. A tax receipt will only be sent once you’ve entered your email address.

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If you want to learn more about donating cryptocurrency, check out The Giving Block’s Tax Guide, contact your tax advisor, or email donatenow@foodbankrockies.org.