10 years ago Edward Snowden Used Bitcoin to Pay for Servers Used in NSA Leak

The servers Edward Snowden used to leak thousands of documents to journalists were paid for using Bitcoin, Snowden revealed this at the Bitcoin Conference on June 27, 2019.

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Snowden was working as a CIA subcontractor in 2013 when his leak revealed that telecom companies and governments were involved in “almost Orwellian” mass surveillance programs that swept up the phone records of unsuspecting Americans.

Speaking via video-link from Russia, he described the ability to exchange and transact without being watched and recorded “is the foundation of all rights” — and said bitcoin was helping to deliver privacy in an age of heightened surveillance.

He also warned of the detrimental impact that smartphones and social networks will have on our right to privacy in the future, adding:

“It used to be that governments could watch you, but now all of this happens with devices that we, ourselves, pay for. And while we do that privacy stops being the status quo and liberty stops being the natural state of things.”

Elsewhere during his appearance, Snowden dismissed criticism that bitcoin is mainly used by criminals, arguing: “There are a hell of a lot more criminals that use the dollar.”

I could find any information on how much Bitcoin he used to pay for servers.

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