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by Azrael3000 1837 days ago
Thanks for the background link. I did not know about that and it's a good incentive to donate them some money for the legal battle.

TL;DR of the link: No more uploads to support a court case in India which SciHub might win and thus establish a legal basis for operation in the biggest democracy.
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andyxor 1837 days ago
when donating bitcoin make sure to get the address from the official scihub mirrors, which are currently sci-hub.do, sci-hub.st or sci-hub.se.

there are some unaffiliated "mirrors" that only redirect to scihub but list their own bitcoin address for donations, so beware.

/r/scihub on reddit keeps track of this https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/wiki/index

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lowkey 1837 days ago
Sci-hub is such a great example of a clear and compelling use-case for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is censorship-resistant money that doesn't rely on countries, laws, central bankers or politicians. The US dollar cannot be used for purposes not aligned with the US government. Sometimes ideas that the US Government doesn't agree with can be useful (e.g. Wikileaks, Sci-hub.)

When I hear complaints that Bitcoin has no use except for speculation, I think of Sci-hub, Wikileaks and other organizations that may be bad for the interests of the US government but may be good for mankind.

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hyperbovine 1837 days ago
It's a censorship resistant technology that also indelibly records, publicly, every transaction you ever participated in. Talk about a double-edged sword...
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lowkey 1837 days ago
Agree, it's an interesting trade-off: Completely private if you can use an anonymous address but completely traceable if the address is identified. I wonder if Satoshi intended it that way or if he would have preferred the greater anonymity of Monero.
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