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Author: cirosantilli

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 <Ciro Santilli> is actively looking for donations and contracts so he can continue to work full time on <OurBigBook.com> sustainably, and develop free hardcore university-level <STEM> education for all ages!
 
-At 100k <USD>, I quit my job to work full time on it for one year. During this year I will use my contacts with STEM students of a world leading university near where I live and solve as many of their problem sheets as possible, mostly by referring to OurBigBook.com articles I'll be writing. The goal is to get as much STEM knowledge as possible into the world, and highlight how flawed presencial and sequential Higher Education is, while positioning <OurBigBook.com> as an alternative way to organize humanity's knowledge. Quite grand.
+At \b[100k <USD>], I quit my job to work full time on it for one year. During this year I will use my contacts with STEM students of a world leading university near where I live and solve as many of their problem sheets as possible, mostly by referring to OurBigBook.com articles I'll be writing. The goal is to get as much STEM knowledge as possible into the world, and highlight how flawed presencial and sequential Higher Education is, while positioning <OurBigBook.com> as an alternative way to organize humanity's knowledge. Quite grand.
 
 Status: \b[~144k / 200k USD] reached. 1st year locked in and started 1st June 2024 to 31st May 2025https://mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/112542498271073292{ref}, 2nd year stretch goal open. A second year greatly improve chances of success: year one I solve a bunch of courses, year two I come guns blazing with the content and expand further. Donation breakdown:
 * 2024-03-18: \$126,352 (!!!): anonymous 1000 <Monero> donation to self-custody wallet. Further comments: <1000 Monero donation>.
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 At \b[1M USD] I retire and work on open STEM education forever.
 
+\b[Note to potential anonymous crypto donors]: we are now in the process of deciding if significant anonymous donations are actually usable at my country of residence or not: <1000 monero donation/Barclays regulation>. Please be aware of this potential regulatory risk when donating crypto anonymously. If it turns out that it is not possible, I will write off all anonymous donations at zero.
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 \b[How to give]:
 * one time donations:
   * \b[<cryptocurrency>]: note that Ciro is not a regular crypto user, so you might want to make a smaller test donation and confirm that it worked by <contact>[contacting] Ciro before going for colossal amounts (one can dream):