A throwback post says Edward Snowden later disclosed using Bitcoin to buy the servers behind his first NSA leak to The Guardian.
Edward Snowden’s first NSA leak reached The Guardian on this day in 2013, and he later said he used Bitcoin to buy the servers that helped enable it. The post frames that purchase as one of the earliest real-world examples of Bitcoin being used as a censorship-resistant payment tool, underscoring how the asset could be used to move money outside traditional financial rails.