On Bitcoin UASF: Private Internet Access stands with the People

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Private Internet Access was one of the first VPN providers to accept Bitcoin as payment for our VPN service back in early 2011 on the #Bitcoin-OTC channel on IRC. Since then, Bitcoin has grown into a truly mature, decentralized network with widespread usage across the globe.

To us, Bitcoin was an obvious movement to throw our support behind.

As longtime Bitcoin supporters and users, PIA truly believes that the users are the ones that have the real power in a decentralized system.

BIP148-UASF is a movement of Bitcoin users who are forcing the issue and taking back power from miners to get Segwit activated.

PIA is joining this movement and will be enforcing Segwit consensus rules on August 1st. Since the beginning, we have been using Bitpay to accept Bitcoin payments, so we will be requesting that they support the UASF to process our payments.

If we can't get them to do so in time, we will be switching to a payment provider that does support the UASF or accepting Bitcoin directly through a Bitcoin Core BIP148 full node.

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