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by mncharity 1988 days ago
Is there an Easy Sci-Hub Donation for Dummies?

scihub.org/donate/ looks scam.

https://sci-hub.tech/donation/ at least has the same bitcoin address as sci-hub.do, but as for PayPal et al... ???

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I think the Wikipedia's scihub page [0] can always be relied upon to know the current canonical URL.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

.org is definitely a different site and organization, they intentionally blur the lines to make people think they are associated with Sci-Hub.
It's a different site but they are not pretending to be Sci-Hub. The Chinese scam site is.

SciHub.org was formed in 2008 and has 50 employees per CrunchBase.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/science-hub

Real organization, coincidentally a very similar domain and area of work.

That's a scam site. Visit the official VK page for real links.
.do seems like the canonical domain
https://sci-hub.do

https://sci-hub.st

https://sci-hub.se

are the only working domains that have been linked from the official Twitter, VK, or FB accounts.

All other URLs should be considered unofficial or scams.

It’s https://sci-hub.do/ or https://sci-hub.ren (that .tech and .org domains are different organizations)

To be sure try searching for some random paywalled academic paper on their site