The international hacker collective Anonymous claims it has successfully breached over 300 Russian targets in just two days
.Now it’s offering payment in Bitcoin to Russian soldiers to hand over their tanks. The offer to buy tanks came after reports Russia refused to open its stock market this morning after first saying it would delay opening it for a few hours.
The notorious hacker community claims to have collected over RUB 1 billion (worth £7.8 million at the time of writing) and is offering tank crews RUB 5 million (£39,000) for each surrendered tank, according to Ukrainian media.
Russian troops are advised by Anonymous to surrender with a white flag and use the password ‘million’ to show that they accept the collective’s terms.
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has also reportedly said that it will guarantee amnesty to surrender forces.
Crypto and blockchain are being used in unprecedented ways in the Russia-Ukraine war
The war in Ukraine is the first major conflict of the crypto era, and, as it happens, Ukraine itself is a cryptocurrency capital. What was a tool of economic growth in peacetime has now, with war, become another weapon in the fight?
Millions donated to the Ukrainian war effort through anonymous bitcoin donations have been spent on thermal imagers, drones, and other military equipment needed for the Ukrainian army.
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