[kikowi]

I have been working with a few Russian and Belarusian software engineers on Upwork and I now pay them in cryptocurrencies, because Upwork (and other websites) banned their profiles and they can't receive my payments.

[jacknews]

You're using it to evade sanctions?

[IshKebab]

Yeah the only real use for Bitcoin is to do illegal stuff. If what you're doing is legal than there are way easier methods.

There are occasional grey areas (e.g. Wikileaks donations) but that's the truth 99% of the time.

[Brian_K_White]

It is an answer to the question, and for every sanction you consider valid, there is one you don't, and so the tool to get around them, and the act of getting around them, is not damning.

[yucky]

Sanctions is a fancy word for "starving the innocent women and children who live in countries not aligned with our interests".

You want to take out Putin, take him out. Don't try to harm innocent people just because they had the misfortune of being born in a country that we no longer find economically useful.