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Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations

Bitcoin has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals.

By Anna Baydakova

Updated Sep 14, 2021, 8:54 a.m. Published Jun 22, 2020, 8:00 a.m.

Alexandra Elbakyan, the woman behind SciHub, at a conference at Harvard in 2010.