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I fail to see the link you are drawing from Sci-Hub to Bitcoin. Care to clarify?

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.)

Furthermore, you can easily use WikiLeaks as an example of Bitcoin being used to transfer value past censorship from banks / payment processors.

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