So funny, 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.
Mindboggling.
It's try because the use of cryptocurrency in funding could be used against them, given the nature of the case.
Dutch lawyers are not allowed to take Bitcoin donations, at least that was the case a few years ago. I'm not sure if and how Pertsev's case is currently crowdfunded. Last time I checked his trial is in March.
* it's tricky
I didn’t know that it is a case in Netherland. It might be discriminatory approach of the regulation too: Belarus opposition is located and registered in Netherland, they use all crypto donations for their cause.
It wasn't a law, but some lawyers self-organization ("deken") that made that rule. But again I'm not sure if it's still an issue.
With all respect to lawyers as a profession, but some of them also were advising me not to say publicly about de-risking, not to criticize FATF and don’t use #bitcoin.
On my question how do they propose me to survive being financially excluded and under attack of three authoritarian states- they didn’t answer. In unusual situations we should use asymmetric solutions, otherwise impossible to defend ourselves.
