Vitalik Buterin Donates $2.4 Million In Ether To Anti-Aging Research

The SENS Analysis Foundation, a alms allotment analysis for treating-age accompanying diseases, has accustomed a $2.4 actor Ether donation from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, according to a columnist absolution on the charity’s website Friday, Feb. 1.

The foundation was co-founded in 2009 by Aubrey de Grey, a gerontologist who is researching aesthetic therapies to extend people’s biological ages, acquisitive to admittance bodies to alive abundant best than anytime before.

Buterin, who is quoted in the columnist absolution as a “fan of Aubrey’s assignment back [he] aboriginal apprehend Ending Crumbling [de Grey’s book] as a teenager”, additionally said:

“I am adored to accept been adored with the befalling to alone abutment SENS's efforts. Their focus on creating solutions to the diseases of aging, one of the greatest problems adverse humanity, is actual abundant in band with my ambition to absolutely appulse the lives of millions of bodies about the world.”

The SENS Analysis Foundation has already accustomed two ample donations accretion $2 actor in Bitcoin (BTC) from the bearding Bitcoin-only alms fund, Pineapple Armamentarium — the aboriginal actor dollars in December 2017 and addition $1 actor in BTC on Feb. 2.