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With PayPal now closed to her, she [Elbakyan] simply turned to bitcoin donations to keep feeding Sci-Hub’s growth. ... One 2017 PeerJ study estimated that Sci
by apo 9y ago
With PayPal now closed to her, she [Elbakyan] simply turned to bitcoin donations to keep feeding Sci-Hub’s growth.
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One 2017 PeerJ study estimated that Sci-Hub owned $268,000 in unspent bitcoin as of August 2017. (Though Elbakyan has publicly disagreed with that estimate, she hasn’t said how much she owns in bitcoin. She claims the exact amount is confidential.)
- Obi_Juan_Kenobi 9y agoFurthermore, you can easily use WikiLeaks as an example of Bitcoin being used to transfer value past censorship from banks / payment processors.