EA Forum Podcast (All audio) “GoodWallet: turning everyday repayments into high-impact donations” by Patrick Mayerhofer 🔸
TL;DR
GoodWallet is a digital wallet that lets you redirect your own and your friends’ money towards effective charities. By streamlining and socializing the giving process, we aim to unlock new, counterfactual donations within the EA community. Additionally, by making effective giving the default, we hope to expose non-EA friends to impact-per-€ cues, exporting the idea of effective giving far beyond EA's borders. Eventually, we hope that saying “just pay me back via GoodWallet” will be as common as splitting with Revolut/Paypal/Venmo/Monzo.
We’re fully online and need your feedback, brutal critique, and help to spread the word. Here, I wanted to walk you through our thought process, tell you the vision, and what is implemented and what isn’t. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Big thanks to Antilia Virginie for her help in writing this article. Antilia is currently pursuing a PhD at Oxford, focusing on the behavioural determinants [...]
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Outline:
(00:12) TL;DR
(01:42) 1. What GoodWallet does today / our vision for tomorrow
(03:03) 2. The (surprisingly big) friction problem
(06:06) 4. Road-map & open questions
(06:44) 5. How you can help
(07:26) Closing - Some personal words
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First published:
July 1st, 2025
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.