good thing bitcoin is anonymous and donating to Ukraine is a use case (bsky.app)

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Binance reportedly handed Russian investigators data on IT specialist Yuri Belenky, who donated around $700 in crypto to Ukraine’s military while living in the EU.

The information was later used as evidence in a Russian “terrorism financing” case against him.

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

that was the standard retort to "BTC isn't anonymous" back in the day - just find someone on "Local Bitcoins" and pay a 20% surcharge to get coins from a dude on a street corner

this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026

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