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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>Cryptocurrency analysts say at least $13.7m (\u00a310.2m) has so far been donated to the Ukrainian war effort through anonymous Bitcoin donations.<\/b><\/p>\n

Researchers at Elliptic, a blockchain analysis company, say the Ukrainian government, NGOs and volunteer groups have raised the money by advertising their Bitcoin wallet addresses online.<\/p>\n

More than 4,000 donations have been made so far, with one unknown donor gifting Bitcoin worth $3m to an NGO.<\/p>\n

The median donation is $95.<\/p>\n

On Saturday afternoon, the official Twitter account of the Ukraine government posted a message: “Stand with the people of Ukraine. Now accepting cryptocurrency donations. Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT.”<\/p>\n

It posted addresses for two cryptocurrency wallets which collected $5.4m in Bitcoin, Ether and other coins within eight hours.<\/p>\n

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The Ukrainian Digital Ministry says the latest call for donations is to “help Ukraine armed forces”, but would not elaborate on how the money would be spent.<\/p>\n

Elliptic founder Tom Robinson told the BBC: “Whereas some crowdfunding and payments companies have refused to allow donations to be made to groups supporting the Ukrainian military, cryptocurrencies have emerged as a powerful alternative.”<\/p>\n

On Friday, fundraising platform Patreon announced that it had suspended the donation page for “Come Back Alive”, a Ukrainian NGO that has been raising money for Ukrainian forces in conflict zones since 2014.<\/p>\n

Patreon said the page violated the company’s policies, saying in a statement: “We don’t allow Patreon to be used for funding weapons or military activity.”<\/p>\n

Cryptocurrency fund raising is becoming an increasingly prominent part of modern conflicts around the world.<\/p>\n

Scammers appear to be also be taking advantage of the current situation in Ukraine, though, by tricking unsuspecting users.<\/p>\n

Elliptic says at least one social media post was found to copy a legitimate tweet from an NGO, but with the author swapping the Bitcoin address, presumably for one of their own.<\/p>\n

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