Roger Ver Pledges $20k in Bitcoin to Antiwar.com Campaign
Bitcoin entrepreneur and now philanthropist Roger Ver has doubled an earlier pledge of $10,000 in bitcoin to the activist site Antiwar.com, now promising to match up to $20,000 in donations from the public. Ver first pledged up to $10,000 in matching BTC donations to the "non-interventionist" campaign site in August, hitting that target in about a month, following over 300 individual contributions. The current campaign runs until 14th December. Antiwar.com and bitcoin. Antiwar.com began accepting bitcoin donations in November 2012, director of operations Angela Keaton told CoinDesk, saying....
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Roger Ver is an early adopter of Bitcoin and a peace advocate who puts his satoshis where his mouth is. A few years ago he fled the state in America to live in Japan, after spending ten months in a California prison for selling pest control products without state permission papers. In a natural alliance, he’s doubled his original donation match pledge of US$10,000 to Antiwar.com to US$20,000. The donation drive is active now and will wrap on December 14. Angela Keaton is the director of operations at Antiwar.com, which has been accepting Bitcoin donations since 2012. She shared details of....
AntiWar.com has been a consistent alternative media source for peace, and because of their radical approach, they have been drawn to non-traditional donation methods, like Bitcoin. In early 2015, Google Adsense shut off support for activism project AntiWar over their confrontational tactics of openly displaying images of war and destruction, making them increasingly reliant on donations from sources that are less likely to become unreliable because of controversy. CoinTelegraph spoke to Angela Keaton, Director of Operations of AntiWar.com, on the project’s use of Bitcoin donations.....
Antiwar.com is ran by a dedicated group of activists devoted to non-interventionism and opposed to the military-industrial complex. The site was founded in 1995 and has been spreading the idea of peace ever since. The website is also a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit, and has accepted bitcoin since 2012, being one of the first recognized charitable....
Roger Ver, Bitcoin multimillionaire and peace advocate, is no stranger to violence. He called out the state organization of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) for being murderers (à la Waco), and then he found himself the target of ATF-backed persecution. He spent ten months in a cage in California. Ver moved to Japan the day his parole ended and has lived there ever since. Ver is a well-known donor and angel investor, and he’s currently offering to match up to US$20,000 in donated bitcoins to Antiwar.com. CoinTelegraph saw this as the perfect occasion to ask him more about his....
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