I received information from the author of a service that allowed anyone to send Bitcoin donations while paying in rubles from a bank card. Unfortunately, the service closed because the author’s Yandex wallet was blocked, and other ruble online payment tools do not have the necessary functions in their API. This, alas, is a typical situation for agorists—the state seeks to tax every transaction, and if it cannot, it prefers to crush everything in sight. As for Yandex, although it is formally private today, it is unable to resist the whims of the state.

So I had to update the instructions in the Donations section, removing the description of this option. However, taking advantage of the occasion, I added some updates to the Lightning description page—there, on the contrary, a new service appeared for exchanging those same Yandex rubles for Lightning; I don’t know how long it will last.

On the other hand, the VPN from Vee Security, which I advertised some time ago, is quite alive and has no intention of fading away.

I hope everyone who wanted to has taken advantage of the recent dip in the Bitcoin rate and stocked up for the future.