A Discussion With Antiwar.com’s Angela Keaton

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.....

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....

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....

Amid the high-profile Bitcoin conferences this year comes a challenger, one which gives a platform to Bitcoin’s more “radical” side – and CoinTelegraph will be right there. Bitcoin in the Beltway may be innocently titled, but its content and attendees promise to deliver anything but quiet reception. In a press release, itself written by M.K. Lords of Bitcoin Not Bombs, the 3-day event scheduled for June 20-22 in Washington D.C. promises: “…such rebels as Defense Distributed’s Cody Wilson, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, Antiwar.com’s Angela Keaton, and Blockchain’s Andreas Antonopoulos, …....

Representatives from three non-profit organizations that accept donations in bitcoins say their groups' freedom- and peace-focused missions mesh with the Bitcoin ethos. The speakers shared their experience with the cryptocurrency during a panel discussion on Sunday at Bitcoin 2013 in San Jose. "For Fr33 Aid, we started acepting bitcoins in 2011, we posted our address online, but we didn't get our first donation until early 2012," said Teresa Warmke, treasurer of Fr33 Aid, a New Hampshire-based organization that works to "help individuals organize projects that educate people about the....