Discovering Bitcoin Through the #EndSARS Movement, Feat. Yele Bademosi & Akin...
When the Nigerian government shut down #EndSARS protestors’ bank accounts, bitcoin and crypto became a way around.
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The CEO of Twitter and Square has urged Bitcoiners to join the fight to end the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Nigeria The CEO of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey, has urged his followers to donate Bitcoin to the #endSARS cause, which aims to end police brutality in Nigeria.Donate via #Bitcoin to help #EndSARS https://t.co/kf305SFXze— jack (@jack) October 14, 2020 The crypto donation site he linked to is run by a group of Nigerian feminists fighting against the police’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) through protests, fundraising, and social media.A series of demonstrations....
Nigerians are protesting police corruption and concerns about a possible internet shutdown have driven some to adopt decentralized VPNs like Mysterium.
Demanding a fee of US$310,000 is quite steep for such potentially useless information, though. Bitcoin continues to make mainstream media headlines, although it is not always in a manner people expected. A partner at Akin Gump has been arrested while trying to sell a sealed whistleblower complaint in exchange for bitcoin. This offer was extended to a company under federal investigation, although the name of the company was not made public. The Akin Gump partner aimed to receive US$310,000 for selling this document, although the sale never materialized. It is rather strange to think of a....
15 March 2016 – Several new Tor de-anonymizing techniques have come to light in the past few days, which primarily exploit old javascript injection bugs to identify Tor users uniquely with mouse movement patterns and metrics. Jose Carlos Norte published these new exploits on his blog last week, shortly after discovering them. The security hole enabling these exploits is a ten-month-old bug that was unfortunately never addressed by the Tor developers. Until these bugs are resolved, oppressive regimes and nations that frown upon the use and trading of cryptocurrency can easily track privacy....
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, has claimed that a majority of cryptocurrency transactions are embedded in illegality. He also asserts that there is no room for cryptocurrency in the Nigerian banking space.
Pushback Against Endsars Protest Claims
In his latest anti-cryptocurrency salvo that was published by the Punch, Emefiele however appeared to push back against the claims the CBN had abruptly decided to exclude cryptocurrency entities from the banking system as punishment for the industry’s perceived support of the Endsars protests.
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