How to Help Pay for Snowden’s Getaway Without Being Caught? #Bitcoins. - The Daily Beast
▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/how-to-help-pay-for-snowden-s-getaway-without-being-caught-bitcoins.h
Snowden is apparently already using bitcoins, albeit indirectly. Ever since the credit-card companies’ 2010 chokehold, #WikiLeaks has been accepting donations via the electronic currency. And maybe it’s a coincidence, but bitcoin donations to WikiLeaks jumped from about $20 per day last week to more than $700 on Monday, the day Snowden was reportedly headed from Moscow to Havana. (...)
There’s an entire thread at Bitcointalk.org devoted to figuring out a way to donate the currency to Snowden directly, if users can find a way to set up an account and get him access to it. That could keep the fugitive flush and protect donors from prosecution, and in turn, could bolster bitcoin’s reputation.
“This is an excellent use case,” Jon Matonis, director of the Bitcoin Foundation, told The Daily Beast. “Payment should be separate from politics. Money should not be used as a method of identity tracking. And donors should be free to donate just as they would be free to donate hundred-dollar bills in the Salvation Army buckets.”
via @opironet