I would also love to be able to do it easy with a credit card online as well but a number of cops recently got fired or disciplined for donating money through such a thing to Kyle Rittenhouse's defense fund so I'm starting to think the gift card method- using cash at a physical location- might be a better option.
If you pay for a Visa gift card using cash and PM Null the details, no one will know you have done so unless you tell them.
I tried to sign up, but even after I linked my bank account, it wanted me to sign up for a credit card.
I will just do Zelle.
I'm not with privacy.com, but I believe it is a debit card you would have been issued, and you would have gained the ability to generate disposable virtual credit cards. Disposable virtual credit cards are one of the best means of protecting yourself from fraud and unscrupulous merchants that surreptitiously register you for recurring payments. A disposable virtual credit card can be set to self-destruct after it is charged just once. If a website doesn't accept PayPal, you are forced to use your traditional physical credit card. Every time you do this, the chances of a fraudulent transaction go up a little. A disposable virtual credit card that can only be charged once is ideal for these situations.
Since this thread is still on donation methods, could a Brit who’s found a way to donate please PM me to explain what method they used?
AFAIK Prepaid Visa or Mastercard gift cards and cryptocurrency are both readily available in Britain.
I don’t even know how crypto works but I’ll have a go this evening.
To use cryptocurrencies, there is very little you need to know. The underlying technology is complicated, but you don't need to know any of that to purchase, send, and receive cryptocurrencies.
If you have ever opened a savings account online, you will be capable of registering an account with a cryptocurrency exchange. The procedure is basically the same. You fill in the online form, and you provide some form of identification document by means that vary with each exchange. The approval is usually instant.
Your account with a cryptocurrency exchange will be linked to either a savings account, debit card, or some other remittance mechanism that varies from country to country. The function of the exchange is to-- as the name suggests -- exchange
fiat currency, i.e., government-issued legal tender for cryptocurrency. Your exchange account will have a cryptocurrency "wallet" where your purchase of cryptocurrency will be deposited. There is no need to go beyond the metaphorical language if your purpose is only to buy, send, and receive cryptocurrency.
You shouldn't send cryptocurrency
directly from your exchange wallet to a third party. The exchange will know where you are sending your cryptocurrency, and if they disapprove of the destination, they may close your account. This had happened when users sent their crypto from their exchange wallet directly to one of the Dark Web markets. In these cases, the Dark Web markets were reusing wallet addresses. The exchange need only register an account on the market and initiate a series of purchases until a destination wallet address is provided, and then abort the transaction. They can keep doing that to identify the set of recycled addresses that were being used for the escrow accounts. Similarly, if you send BTC from your exchange wallet directly to the BTC addresses publicly displayed on this website, the exchange will know where you are sending your funds if they care to find out.
To avoid the surveillance of the exchange, you should send all of your funds to a wallet on your PC or smartphone. The destination address will be one that you just generated to receive the crypto funds. You won't use it again. The exchange will not determine whether the address you sent it to is one that you control or someone else's. If you are using Bitcoin (BTC), the transfer will be visible in the public ledger, termed the
blockchain, but there will be no associated identifying data. The blockchain doesn't hold your IP address, email address, or name. So long as you don't publicize your transfer on the internet or reuse the address in a context that divulges any identifying data, there will be no easy means to attribute it to you.
Let me show you how easy it is to send and receive BTC using the wallet software
Electrum (
https://electrum.org/).
Receiving BTC from your exchange supplied online wallet:
Note: The fields will clear after you click the "New Address" button.
You then take the address you generated and specify it as the destination address in your online exchange account. Then you initiate a send of funds.
There is a latency associated with transfers that varies depending on the level of activity on the blockchain. You will be waiting for
confirmation of the transfer of BTC from the source address to the destination address. While you are waiting for the confirmation,
Electrum will show the transfer as having a status of "Unconfirmed." Confirmation can take anything from a few minutes to hours. Don't panic. If you have used the inbuilt copy-and-paste function (or the QR code if you are using a smartphone) to get the correct destination address into your online wallet, you definitely will eventually receive your funds.
When you have received the funds into the
Electrum wallet on your PC, you will be able to send them on to Null. For maximum privacy (concerning BTC), don't use the addresses that Null has advertised on the website. Rather, PM Null and ask him for an address that hasn't been publicized.
After Null has confirmed receipt of the funds, you can delete the associated PMs. If you so choose, you can also delete the
Electrum history. That's the procedure. It is no more complicated than using your online banking service to pay a bill.
The displayed address is just a random string I have used as an example. The BTC addresses do look like that, however. They are typically 34 (random) alphanumeric characters in length. This is why you should always use copy-and-paste (or the QR code) and never try to transcribe them manually.
Also, don't ever download any wallet software from any website other than the official source. Doing otherwise puts you at risk of installing malware on your PC that will steal your crypto. This has happened.
Also, send Null more than .0001 BTC.
I hope that you find the above useful.