Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations

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Alexandra Elbakyan at a conference at Harvard in 2010. (Apneet Jolly/Wikimedia Commons, modified using PhotoMosh)

“Sci-Hub has undeniably made the world a better place, and Alexandra has had to live as a pariah because of it. Funding her operations with bitcoin perfectly demonstrates its value proposition.”

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