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British MP Matt Hancock is continuous his mission to help blockchain know-how by means of a brand new NFT assortment known as “From Ukrain with Love,” in keeping with a press release given to Crypto.
From Ukraine with Love
The NFT assortment includes works painted by Ukranian artist Oleg Mischenko earlier than the battle and shall be offered at The NFT Gallery in London’s Mayfair on Monday, twenty seventh February. Funds from gross sales will go towards CARE Worldwide UK’s Ukraine Humanitarian Attraction. The gathering, “From Ukraine with Love,” was curated by Irina Korobkina, who fled Kyiv together with her 5-year-old daughter following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hancock’s involvement stems from internet hosting Korobkina within the UK since April 2022. Mischenko remained in Ukraine portray as “shells rained down round him” earlier than becoming a member of his household in December.
“My husband’s work and this NFT assortment offers my household and my nation hope. Every bit depicts nature in our fantastic Ukraine. It was a fantastic, flourishing, peaceable nation till Putin waged this unlawful and barbaric battle.”
Matt Hancock champions crypto
Relating to the NFT assortment, Hancock commented;
“I’m extremely happy with Irina and Oleg, and I’m honoured to help the household with their charity NFT assortment[…] Oleg is an extremely gifted artist, and his ‘From Ukraine, With Love’ assortment is actually gorgeous.”
Hancock has been vocal in supporting the blockchain business with calls to make the UK a “crypto hub.” The MP for West Suffolk has beforehand targeted on advocating for a “growth-maximizing view the place revenues sooner or later shall be far higher” in relation to crypto tax and regulation.
Nonetheless, the launch of this new NFT assortment showcases Hancock’s want to not solely champion blockchain as a know-how but additionally to advertise its use circumstances.
Talking at Zebu Stay in London on Sept. 23, 2022, Hancock revealed that he didn’t maintain any crypto property, together with Bitcoin. The MP argued that by not holding crypto personally, he was extra capable of be goal about its future.
Nonetheless, this strategy is unusual throughout the area as an entire, with nearly all of influential figures within the crypto area personally investing giant sums into digital property.
Hancock has been bullish on blockchain for a while. In 2016, when he was the Paymaster Basic, he acknowledged,
“The federal government can not bury its head within the sand and ignore new applied sciences as they emerge[…] That’s partly what occurred up to now in authorities with the online … We can not let (that) occur once more by standing nonetheless.”
Whereas most of Hancock’s efforts to advertise crypto throughout the UK occurred earlier than 2020, he reemerged because the political face of crypto throughout the British authorities in 2022, with quite a few appearances endorsing UK crypto.
The NFT assortment is hosted on Coinbase’s NFT market and launches on Feb. 27.
