Deputatul britanic Matt Hancock își continuă misiunea de a susține tehnologia blockchain printr-o nouă colecție NFT numită „From Ukrain with Love”, potrivit unei declarații date către CryptoSlate.
From Ukraine with Love
Colecția NFT cuprinde lucrări pictate de artistul ucrainean Oleg Mischenko înainte de război și va fi vândută la The NFT Gallery din Mayfair din Londra luni, 27 februarie. Fondurile din vânzări vor fi direcționate către apelul umanitar pentru Ucraina al CARE International UK. Colecția, „Din Ucraina cu dragoste”, a fost organizată de Irina Korobkina, care a fugit de la Kiev împreună cu fiica ei de 5 ani în urma invaziei Rusiei în Ucraina.
Hancock’s involvement stems from hosting Korobkina in the UK since April 2022. Mischenko remained in Ukraine painting as “shells rained down around him” before joining his family in December.
“My husband’s paintings and this NFT collection gives my family and my country hope. Each piece depicts nature in our wonderful Ukraine. It was a beautiful, flourishing, peaceful country until Putin waged this illegal and barbaric war.”
Matt Hancock champions crypto
Regarding the NFT collection, Hancock commented;
“I’m incredibly proud of Irina and Oleg, and I am honoured to support the family with their charity NFT collection[…] Oleg is an incredibly talented artist, and his ‘From Ukraine, With Love’ collection is truly stunning.”
Hancock has been vocal in de sprijin the blockchain industry with calls to make the UK a “crypto hub.” The MP for West Suffolk has previously focused on advocating for a “growth-maximizing view where revenues in the future will be far greater” in relation to crypto tax and regulation.
However, the launch of this new NFT collection showcases Hancock’s desire to not only champion blockchain as a technology but also to promote its use cases.
Speaking at Zebu Live in London on Sept. 23, 2022, Hancock revealed that he did not hold any crypto assets, including Bitcoin. The MP argued that by not holding crypto personally, he was more able to be objective about its future.
However, this approach is uncommon within the space as a whole, with the majority of influential figures in the crypto space personally investing large sums into digital assets.
Hancock has been bullish on blockchain for some time. In 2016, when he was the Paymaster General, he stabilit,
“The government cannot bury its head in the sand and ignore new technologies as they emerge[…] That is partly what happened in the past in government with the web … We cannot let (that) happen again by standing still.”
While most of Hancock’s efforts to promote crypto within the UK took place before 2020, he reemerged as the political face of crypto within the British government in 2022, with numerous apariţii endorsing UK crypto.
The NFT collection is hosted on Piața NFT a Coinbase and launches on Feb. 27.
Source: https://cryptoslate.com/british-mp-matt-hancock-launches-nft-charity-project-for-ukraine/