On site to accept donations in bitcoin BitHope.org there was a petition calling for donations for Edward Snowden. Interestingly, the authors of the petition decided to collect only one bitcoin to send it to a former us intelligence officer.
At the moment bitcoin enthusiasts gathered for Snowden 0.7726 BTC.
How to write the creators of the petition, through the work of the former agent of US intelligence people know that there is a very high likelihood that their actions will be recorded.
“The intelligence agencies of the most powerful world powers use their technical advantage in order to limit our freedom and privacy similar to that described by Orwell”, — stated in the text of the petition.
In addition, the organizers of the fundraiser led 10 reasons to participate in fundraising for Snowden needs everyone.
1. We now know that the U.S. government has secretly allowed the NSA to record phone conversations of all Americans.
2. Snowden revealed information about the program РRISM, through which the US government had direct access to servers of IT giants.
3. British intelligence has entangled the whole world with fiber-optic cables to intercept data from the Internet.
4. NSA spying on foreign leaders.
5. We learned about the program XKeyscore, which allows NSA to monitor the actions of any user of the Internet.
6. As it turned out, all the time the NSA hacked encryption protocols and neglect Internet security.
7. We received information that the NSA assembled a team of hackers extra class that hacks into computers, infect them with viruses and does the dirty work.
8. The NSA broke into the data centers of Google and Whoa.
9. The NSA gathers text messages worldwide, using the program Dishfire.
10. The NSA intercepts and stores all phone calls made in Afghanistan and the Bahamas.
It is reported that all the collected funds will be used to a bitcoin address Snowden. BitHope will not control neither the sources of funds, no matter what they will be spent.
March 11 this year BitHope completed the first successful project: the users of the site gathered 0,6 bitcoins, which were given for the purchase of new shoes for children from orphanages.