WikiLeaks ‘Drowning in Material’ in Post-Bitcoin World
In a July 20 interview, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke about the resurgence of the platform, and the release of new evidence proving U.S. Secret Service surveillance of the German government on an unprecedented peacetime scale. Talking about the increase in published material over the last few months, Assange stressed that the site never stopped posting documents, but that some of these (regarding Syria, for example) had not been of great interest to Western media. In addition, the conflict since 2010 with the U.S. government lead to a banking blockade that cut WikiLeaks off from....
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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, still confined in the Ecuador embassy in London, revealed interesting bits of WikiLeaks - and Bitcoin - history in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) open Q/A session on Reddit today. The AMA was dedicated to Assange's new book "When Google Met WikiLeaks." Julian Assange Saves Bitcoin from WikiLeaks. In a comment on Reddit, Julian Assange says he has written about Bitcoin in his new book, and highlights the following footnote: On 5 December 2010, just after VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Amazon, and other financial companies started denying service to WikiLeaks,....
Notorious nonprofit journalistic organization WikiLeaks revealed via Twitter on 24th January that the majority of its public funding now comes through bitcoin and litecoin donations. The tweet included a link to its official donation page, which lists major mainstream channels like American Express, MasterCard and PayPal. The organisation also accepts traditional bank transfers and Visa as other payment options. Did you know the majority of WikiLeaks public funding is #BitCoin and #LiteCoin? https://t.co/rHPkDhfEnT More: https://t.co/X4WB1IbPdQ. - WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 24, 2014.....
Julian Assange has described how bitcoin founder 'Satoshi Nakamoto' asked him not to use the fledgling digital currency for WikiLeaks fundraising, and how going along with that request helped protect bitcoin from government scrutiny during its early days. The revelations came in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session set up by the WikiLeaks founder to promote his new book, When Google Met WikiLeaks. Most of the Q&A revolved around WikiLeaks and politics, but the subject of bitcoin was raised on more than one occasion. Assange said: "There's lots on bitcoin in my book - on my thoughts on....
The founder of the world's largest hedge fund said he sees three main problems with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
On Monday, a British judge rejected the U.S. request to extradite the Australian editor, publisher, and activist Julian Assange. Following the U.K. judge’s decision, the current president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has offered Assange political asylum in the country. Meanwhile, Wikileaks has gathered hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto-asset donations since the founders’ arrest in April 2019. US Extradition Requests for Julian Assange Denied The world recently watched a United Kingdom judge reject the United States’ request to extradite the Wikileaks....