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This 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.

Did they get to him?

And 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.