The Pineapple Fund is an unnamed philanthropist who chronicles his adventures in philanthropy on Reddit. There, he has pledged to give away a fortune in bitcoins – 5,057, to be exact – worth at one point as much as $86 million (bitcoins, like all other cryptocurrencies, have a tendency to fluctuate heavily and quickly in value). He’s also stated his basic mission there: On The Pineapple Fund’s official site, the person behind it keeps a running tally of how much has been given. So far, the site purports that $27,650,000 has been distributed among 36 different charitable causes. One of their most recent acts of generosity was to the $1 million Internet Archive, a gift which accounted for two thirds of that organization’s recent fundraising drive. The people at Internet Archive expressed their gratitude in a statement like so: Other organizations treated to a Pineapple Fund bump include The Water Project, The Focus Foundation, The Reagent Project, and many, many more – with many more than that still to come.
