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He could get Bitcoin address and ask for donations. I would be surprised if he didn't think about this already. He might not want to give the Government a exc
by gasull 13y ago
He could get Bitcoin address and ask for donations. I would be surprised if he didn't think about this already. He might not want to give the Government a excuse to ban Bitcoin.
- cjh_ 13y agoI am not sure how easy it is to get money in/out to/of bitcoin from within Russia, at least in New Zealand it is generally a PITA and involves many hoops.
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- ngpio 13y agoAt least one major exchange (btc-e) allows deposits/withdrawals in rubles.
- Pitarou 13y agoRoubles? Wouldn't dollars be better?
- venomsnake 13y agoIn Russia dollars are not quite useful.
- ekianjo 13y agoI'd think you can exchange dollars everywhere in the world, even in Russia.
- venomsnake 13y agoYes but getting Bitcoin exchange that you can withdraw money from in foreign currency is trickier.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThat doesn't mean it wouldn't be a pain in the butt, as well as much easier to track.
- qznc 13y agoWhen I was in St Peterburg a few years ago, dollars were welcome. Some said, they even prefer them to rubles.
- nikcub 13y agothe USD was so much more preferred for such a long time, especially as the ruble was losing 10% of its value each month at one point, that the Russians have made settling cash transactions in non-ruble's illegal. They also introduced a plethora of cash import and export laws, since at one point 90%+ of all transactions and 60%+ of GDP was black/grey market cash and in USD. Russia is still a cash heavy economy, now its just ruble's instead of dollars. It means you find it hard to buy or sell rubles outside of Russia, and inside exchanging USD is expensive since the purchaser (edit: exchange businesses) needs to have a license for exchange and a license to hold USD. off course people still use the dollar, but its no longer a case that you have a black market cash exchanger standing on every street corner, or every restaurant and bar etc. accepting USD. It is why more recently some politicians have called on a complete ban on foreign currencies, and a ban on any cash payments for goods over a certain value. The difference between now and 10 years ago for foreigners is that credit cards are more broadly accepted and easy to use, as are ATM's for foreign cards. I wouldn't even bother going through the hoops of dealing with cash or exchanging cash were I visiting.
- guard-of-terra 13y ago"since the purchaser needs to have a license for exchange and a license to hold USD" What do you mean? Residents don't need anything to buy or hold USD, not sure about businesses.
- nzp 13y agoI'm guessing he means the exchange offices have to have a license for doing the exchange business. Not residents or businesses.
- huhtenberg 13y agoThey are as useful as any other currency. Converting between currencies ceased to be an issue in Russia about 20 years ago.
- kome 13y agoHe lives in Russia.
- menato 13y agoIn Russia it's quite opposite: btc-e.com provides a number of convenient ways to withdraw fiat money.
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoWhy not use Western Union?
- Hermel 13y agoYou can send Bitcoins to this address if you want to support him: https://blockchain.info/address/1snowqQP5VmZgU47i5AWwz9fsgHQg94Fa https://blockchain.info/address/1snowqQP5VmZgU47i5AWwz9fsgHQ... Source: https://wikileaks.org/freesnowden https://wikileaks.org/freesnowden He already received 141 Bitcoins (over 50'000 USD) on that address.
- ra 13y agoDid they get to him?
- gmjoe 13y agoThis is specifically "for the legal defence campaign of Mr Edward Snowden". The page doesn't mention any of it going to support Snowden himself. And that might be an important distinction -- IANAL, but contributing to someone's defense fund seems like a perfectly legal thing to do; financially supporting someone on the run from the US government, I'm not sure quite how legal that is. I'm curious if anyone knows more.
- hngiszmo 13y agoAnd these coins remain untouched which does not look broke at first sight at all. But as others stated out, this is legal defense and for a living he should not use a traceable address like that but rather one time addresses. Yeah, I would also be interested where I could chip some coins for his every day expenses.