Crypto to the Rescue After Khan Academy’s COVID-19 Traffic Surge

The founder of education platform Khan Academy has put out an urgent call for donations following a 250% surge in users due to the coronavirus crisis. CEO Sal Khan asked users to donate fiat — or they can donate Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) via their Brave browsers — to help the platform stay open during the pandemic.

Khan Academy accepts Basic Attention Tokens Khan Academy is a Brave Browser/BAT Publisher, which means that they accept donations from Brave browser users. Catherine Corre, head of communications for Brave, told Cointelegraph that Khan Academy was a popular choice for BAT donations: “Brave users can send BAT donations to their favorite publishers via Brave Rewards.

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