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Receiving more than 5,000 mostly small dollar donations, the Bitcoin campaign was backed by a handful of major infusions from cryptocurrency boosters. The two largest, with a total value of more than $300,000 at the time of their making, were donated anonymously.

A number of others, each worth around $42,000, appear to be associated with an online challenge. former software engineer Using the alias LaserHodl and asking other Bitcoin fans to join him in supporting the truck driver convoy. Jesse Powell, founder of crypto exchange Kraken tweeted his dealand a donation attributed to him appears in the data.

Benjamin Dichter, one of the convoy organizers, News Conference He has received offers of help from “big players” in the crypto markets after the cryptocurrency crowdfunding campaign started last week.

“I was shocked at how quickly I started getting messages from some of the world’s most prominent Bitcoiners,” he said.

The GiveSendGo data leak was announced on a webpage titled “GiveSendGo NOW Frozen” on Sunday evening with a five-minute video scrolling through a manifesto of anonymous hackers. In the report, hackers complained that the truck driver protest was “holding a city hostage” and warned that it “could be a cover for a kind of Trojan attack where extremists and militia groups could come in with large numbers of weapons.”

The data includes a record for each donation that includes the donor’s name, zip code and email address they used. It’s not possible to independently verify every donation, but some align with donations that appear publicly on the GiveSendGo website before they go offline.

For example, Mr. Siebel had a Canadian news networkHe noted that his name appeared along with the $90,000 donation at the time it was made on his web page for the convoy campaign. About half of the donations were not accompanied by a person’s name when it appeared publicly on the page.