一枚拯救生命的 NFT：Noora Health 的慈善拍卖
Paul Graham 撰文介绍其长期支持的公益组织 Noora Health 发行的新 NFT。Noora Health 在南亚医院培训新手妈妈，将其回家的婴儿死亡率降低 0.9‰（每千活产拯救 9 名婴儿）。每条生命仅需 1235 美元，且全部预算可追踪。该 NFT 底价 250 万美元，每多出 1 美元就多拯救一条生命，拍卖所得将投入实际救助。文章以真实数据和可验证机制呼吁捐助，同时展示 NFT 用于公益的潜力。
May 2021 Noora Health, a nonprofit I've supported for years, just launched a new NFT. It has a dramatic name, Save Thousands of Lives, because that's what the proceeds will do.
2021年5月，我多年支持的公益组织Noora Health刚刚发布了一个新的NFT。它的名字很有震撼力——“拯救成千上万的生命”，因为这笔善款将真正用来挽救生命。
Noora has been saving lives for 7 years. They run programs in hospitals in South Asia to teach new mothers how to take care of their babies once they get home. They're in 165 hospitals now. And because they know the numbers before and after they start at a new hospital, they can measure the impact they have. It is massive. For every 1000 live births, they save 9 babies.
This number comes from a study of 133,733 families at 28 different hospitals that Noora conducted in collaboration with the Better Birth team at Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Noora Health已经持续拯救生命七年之久。他们为南亚地区的医院提供培训项目，帮助新手妈妈掌握回家后照顾婴儿的方法。目前服务已覆盖165家医院。由于清楚掌握每家新开项目医院前后的数据，他们可以精确评估自己的影响力——结果是巨大的：每1000个活产婴儿中，他们就能救下9个宝宝。
这个数字来自一项涵盖28家医院、133,733个家庭的研究，由Noora与Ariadne Labs的Better Birth团队合作完成。Ariadne Labs是布莱根妇女医院与哈佛大学陈曾熙公共卫生学院共同设立的医疗系统创新联合中心。
Noora is so effective that even if you measure their costs in the most conservative way, by dividing their entire budget by the number of lives saved, the cost of saving a life is the lowest I've seen. $1,235.
For this NFT, they're going to issue a public report tracking how this specific tranche of money is spent, and estimating the number of lives saved as a result.
Noora的效率极高，即使按最保守的方式计算——用总预算除以拯救的生命数——每条命的花费也是我所见过最低的：仅需1235美元。
针对这个NFT，他们将发布一份公开报告，追踪这笔专项资金的具体用途，并估算由此拯救的生命数量。
NFTs are a new territory, and this way of using them is especially new, but I'm excited about its potential. And I'm excited to see what happens with this particular auction, because unlike an NFT representing something that has already happened, this NFT gets better as the price gets higher.
The reserve price was about $2.5 million, because that's what it takes for the name to be accurate: that's what it costs to save 2000 lives. But the higher the price of this NFT goes, the more lives will be saved. What a sentence to be able to write.
NFT是全新的领域，这种使用方式尤其新颖，但我对其潜力感到兴奋。我更期待这次特别拍卖的结果——因为与那些代表已发生事件的NFT不同，这个NFT售价越高，它本身就越有意义。
起拍价定在250万美元左右，因为只有达到这个数字，它的名字才算名副其实：这正是拯救2000条生命的成本。但NFT的价格更高，拯救的生命就更多。能写出这样的句子，真让人感慨。