[2019-06-28]Edward Snowden Used Bitcoin to Pay for Servers Used in NSA Leak

[ppblockchain]

The servers Edward Snowden used to leak thousands of documents to journalists were paid for using bitcoin (BTC), the National Security Agency whistleblower revealed at the Bitcoin 2019 Conference on June 27.

Snowden was working as a CIA subcontractor in 2013 when his leak revealed that telecom companies and governments were involved in “almost Orwellian” mass surveillance programs that swept up the phone records of unsuspecting Americans.

Read more : https://paperblockchain.com/edward-snowden-used-bitcoin-to-pay-for-servers-used-in-nsa-leak/

[buwaytress]

Why is this a big deal? He could have just used (and probably should have haha) disposable mobile credit or anonymous debit cards to pay for those servers. He could probably even have used cash to pay some guy in a cyber cafe to do it, even better but I guess nothing beats the comfort of doing it from your home.

But yeah, anyway, the fact that he had to say it instead of him being accused of it = Bitcoin use still isn't all that obvious on blockchain if you don't know what you're looking for.