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Activists don’t have much options left to crowdfund/fundraise for their activities. It is all started from FATF recommendations, perceived NGOs as risk actors.

Financial institutions one by one exclude us.

So when I see such political case and at the same time tech developers who expect ed to raise funds for legal defense from one of the most regulated platforms, I wonder, how at the earth those guys were expecting to fundraise at #GoFundMe?

This is the most discriminating/privileged platform only.

If you want to feel financial exclusion as result of over-regulation implemented AML/CFT rules, then you go there. But definitely not to fundraise.

One of the reasons why we teach other activists to fundraise with #bitcoin because they were financially excluded from this and other platforms.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/gofundme-tornado-cash-defense-crowdfunding

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TheBitcoinManual 1y ago

For sure, thats why I am so bullish on BTCpay server, you can do so much with it, from processing payments for commerce to accepting donations and it's pretty easy to run yourself

Lyudmyla Kozlovska 1y ago

Yes. We use BTCPay Server and happy to have this mechanism. But we still have a challenge how to get donations from fiat (credit card) and usdt and swap them to #bitcoin in a safe/cheap way in the authoritarian states.

Most of individual donors (and activists in #Kazakhstan or #Turkey whom we support have only them) they still need to understand how to use bitcoin and prefer donate in fiat.

You almost can’t do physically p2p bitcoin transactions - the regime of Kazakhstan is going after such people.

It takes 3-5 minutes to block a financial provider who is exchanges fiat to btc or specific account receiving donations (in #Stripe), associated with fundraising campaigns of activists or opposition.

If you have ideas - let me know. Happy to learn.