WikiLeaks' Assange hypes bitcoin in secret talk
What did WikiLeaks' Julian Assange tell Google's previous CEO Eric Schmidt about bitcoins? Assange, the whistle-blowing media organization's publisher, met with then-CEO Schmidt and Jared Cohen, advisor to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in June 2011. The meeting was arranged at the request of Schmidt and Cohen, who were working on "The New Digital World," a book set for publication this month. WikiLeaks has now published a transcript of the secret meeting on its website. The conversation turns to bitcoin after Schmidt and Assange had been discussing the distributed hash....
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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,....
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....
Bitcoin donations to WikiLeaks increased 1,894% yesterday after Julian Assange pledged his support to whistle-blower Edward Snowden. The Blockchain shows 0.36 bitcoins were transferred to the WikiLeaks wallet address on Sunday, increasing to 7.18 BTC on Monday, following Assange's telephone conference call with reporters. "I have personal sympathy with Snowden having gone through similar personal experiences," Time Magazine reports Assange as saying during the 75-minute call. The WikiLeaks founder is currently residing in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been for the past....
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....
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has revealed in a new book that his organization managed to stay afloat thanks to "strategic investments" in bitcoin that helped the organization cover piling costs in financial and legal areas, The Daily Dot reports. WikiLeaks - much to the disapproval of world governments - is a journalistic outlet that publishes secret information. Its controversial work has led major financial institutions like PayPal, VISA, and MasterCard to block funds serving as donations, with an attempt to financially cripple the organization to its demise. Using bitcoin, however,....