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AUSTIN, Texas—Edward Snowden, whistleblower and president of the the Freedom of the Press Foundation, sees more value in cryptocurrencies in their use, saying he doesn't encourage people putting their money into crypto as an investment.
Appearing virtually at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 conference in Austin, Texas, Snowden who leaked classified information on the National Security Agency (NSA)'s surveillance of its citizens in 2013, said: "I use bitcoin to use it. In 2013, bitcoin is what I used to pay for the servers pseudonymously."
"Generally I don't encourage people to put their money in cryptocurrencies as a technology and this is what distances me from a lot of people in the community," he added.
Snowden also defended the crypto industry in the face of recent criticism by a group of tech experts who criticized cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to...
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