Julian Assange: Bitcoin The Most Intellectually Interesting Development of Last Two Years
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has reportedly spoken his mind on the topic of bitcoin via WeChat Livestream at the Net Prophet technology conference that takes place annually. "Bitcoin is the most intellectually interesting development in the last two years," he said. According to Assange, the technology behind the bitcoin protocol is creating new global consensus by using cryptography to enforce agreements as opposed to having laws on a book. These enforced agreements keep everyone using the bitcoin network on the same page, so to speak. Assange adds that the lack of regulation in the....
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has issued a glowing endorsement of bitcoin, labelling it "the most intellectually interesting development in the last two years". The 42-year-old Australian national was speaking via video link this morning at the Net Prophet technology and trends conference, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa. He believes the next major innovation the world will witness involves the finance sector, and he suggests bitcoin will have a part to play in this. Assange emphasised that traditional financial systems require laws to govern their operation, but digital....
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,....
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange used data from the blockchain as a "proof of life" during a Reddit ask-me-anything session today. For months, some of Assange's ardent Internet fans have been theorizing that he had died. However, Assange responded in a livestreamed talk, calling the theories "silly" and confirming that the video wasn't prerecorded by reading off the most recent block hash (a string of letters and numbers, unique to block 447506 on the bitcoin blockchain). Assange said in the talk: "Thinking about real-time proof-of-life, intellectually the most....
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As the prosecution of Julian Assange continues, can the cryptographic technology that helped WikiLeaks restore history now be used to defend the freedom of its founder? The post Political Prosecution Of Julian Assange Calls For Nonviolent Cryptographic Defense appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.