2013-03-14 WUWT - Climategate whistleblower accepting bitcoin donations

[marcus_of_augustus]

Climategate anonymous whistleblower releases another tranch of FOIA emails and accepts donations in bitcoins.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/13/climategate-3-0-has-occurred-the-password-has-been-released/#more-82057

Even if I have it all wrong and these scientists had some good reason to mislead us (instead of making a strong case with real data) I think disseminating the truth is still the safest bet by far.

Oh, one more thing.  I was surprised to learn from a “progressive” blog, corroborated by a renowned “scientist”, that the releases were part of a coordinated campaign receiving vast amounts of secret funding from shady energy industry groups.

I wasn’t aware of the arrangement but warmly welcome their decision to support my project.  For that end I opened a bitcoin address: 1HHQ36qbsgGZWLPmiUjYHxQUPJ6EQXVJFS.

More seriously speaking, I accept, with gratitude, modest donations to support The (other) Cause.  The address can also serve as a digital signature to ward off those identity thefts which are part of climate scientists’ repertoire of tricks these days.

Keep on the good work.  I won’t be able to use this email address for long so if you reply, I can’t guarantee reading or answering.  I will several batches, to anyone I can think of.

Over and out.

Mr. FOIA

[TraderTimm]

Actually that's quite brilliant.

You could have an entire 'leaker' infrastructure that uses bitcoin - and they can sign messages with their key to prove that it was from 'them', whoever they are, without having to reveal their identity. You could have a complete social-like ranking based on the facts you disclose that you can tie to a particular whistleblower.

Stand aside Wikileaks, you could run your own site within tor or just throw stuff up on pastebin via several proxies/and tor.

[Wekkel]

I am waiting for an application for Name coin to create domain names that cannot be seized but can be accessed by the public without installing extra software. The technology is there now.

[Zangelbert Bingledack]

Actually that's quite brilliant.

You could have an entire 'leaker' infrastructure that uses bitcoin - and they can sign messages with their key to prove that it was from 'them', whoever they are, without having to reveal their identity. You could have a complete social-like ranking based on the facts you disclose that you can tie to a particular whistleblower.

Stand aside Wikileaks, you could run your own site within tor or just throw stuff up on pastebin via several proxies/and tor.

But, but, how would government survive this?

[dree12]

2103 should be 2013.

I won't be personally donating, but it is encouraging to see even minority views accepting donations in Bitcoin.