![pineapple.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmS7ve475EZYfgnhaURMxkTDYNwxi2CJcTZSdwhVCCCn4w/pineapple.png) # [Pineapple Fund](https://pineapplefund.org/) One of the largest Bitcoin holders in the world has donated 50k to me. Why? > The organization was started in December by an anonymous donor who goes by the nickname “Pine” and claims to be among the 250 largest holders of Bitcoin in the world. The fund aims to give away $86 million worth of Bitcoin, and has already given $20 million worth of the currency to 13 organizations, including million-dollar donations to the Water Project, which provides clean water to people in sub-Saharan Africa, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights watchdog.(These donations can be verified thanks to Bitcoin’s digital ledger system, which records every transaction in a public database.) - New York Times # 5,057 BTC $86 million USD total committed $53,132,625 donated so far 58 charities supported so far ...Including me ##### Here's why i am happy for not just me, but millions of other people. Why would this group of people, or *person* donate 50k to me? Let me back track first. Around the same time I joined the crypto world - (**I heard the words crypto & steemit for the first time on the same day**) - Yes mind forever blown & all that. Well, at the same time I began to fall ill. It seams surreal that Bitcoin giverers **Pineapple Fund** have donated so much money to aid research for the disease I fell so sick with the same time I got in to crypto... # Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (**"ME"** ) Also reluctantly called "Chronic fatigue syndrome" - (i said that in a mocking cry baby tone btw) By those of us that actually have to live with it, because fatigue is just one symptom not an actual disease. So don't patronize M.E by calling it that. We are in a lot of pain most of the time. Pineapples seem to help! ![me.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRbxobgmjeb9guQ6xgBK6g8i7pPuYHhdb4egQaZmMjRTa/me.png) (**ME Action group**) ## Why is it so significant that Pineapple Fund have donated to the M.E action group for research? Well, M.E is criminally under funded & under researched, in fact, it's under fucking everything. Jennifer Brea, M.E sufferer started to document & video her life after not being taken seriously with the disease. Brea turned hers & other sufferers lives in to a documentary called ***UNREST***. To fully gauge the severity of what millions of people living with M.E go through, definitely watch the movie unrest, or this TED Talk below by Jennifer. For the first time in years (some have been suffering for decades) This messed up disease is being taken serious, and bomb ass people like Pineapple Fund are making it possible. This disease affects mostly Woman, but it also effects Men & Children, which rejects the claims that we make this disease up in our tiny little heads, you can't make this stuff up. My biggest hero's are people like PF, and people with M.E. For we can not rely on most medical practitioners this time, we are uniting with passion, and around 10% battery. He he! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb3yp4uJhq0 ### A comment from a 9 YEAR OLD patient.. > I was diagnosed with M.E when I was 9 and I'm currently wheelchair and house bound. Last year, I spent 6 months in hospital. I can't walk or stand, I even need my parents to wash me and help me with the smallest of tasks. I haven't been to school in over 3 years. We really need bio-medical research, we're hoping, waiting and dying - undisclosed # Pineapple Fund is making that possible. In the mean time, while we wait, rest, try to heal, become researchers. The festival #BEDFEST took place. A festival of arts, music, expression, from the beds of creatives with M.E. Just look at those beautiful people. # [Watch it here](https://www.bedfest.meaction.net/believe-me-project) ![pineapple-modern-illustration_1010-664.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbM3xnALkNb2b1UW2bSMMRpcbVY9uRzkRCNZXZsa13uXf/pineapple-modern-illustration_1010-664.jpg) *Thank you Pine*