hodlstay on Nostr: When PayPal froze WikiLeaks donations in December 2010 and Mastercard followed suit, ...
When PayPal froze WikiLeaks donations in December 2010 and Mastercard followed suit, Bitcoin kept flowing to the organization uninterrupted. While AWS outages in 2017 and 2021 knocked major platforms offline for hours, Bitcoin-native communities stayed connected through decentralized infrastructure that no single entity controls. That's the difference between building on centralized rails versus Bitcoin's unstoppable network.
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2026-02-25 05:30:59 UTCEvent JSON
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