Putin critic and Russian presidential candidate Alexei Navalny accepts bitcoin donations

Russian anti-corruption lawyer and politician Alexei Navalny is accepting donations in bitcoin in his newly-announced bid for the 2018 presidential election, according to the candidate’s website. The campaign also accepts Yandex.money, bank cards and PayPal.

On Tuesday, Leonid Volkov, head of Navalny’s electoral campaign tweeted that in the first 3.5 hours of his campaign, he received his first million rubles; 15% in bitcoin, 30% from PayPal and 55% from Yandex