Step Aside WikiLeaks, Darkleaks Helps Hackers Share Crime with Bitcoin Technology
It is not like black markets never existed, but Bitcoin technology indeed gave them a simplified and secure platform to trade in and flourish. As developers continue to experiment with this new decentralised P2P payment network, some among them seem to be actually creating ills out of it. In this case, we are speaking about Darkleaks - a blackmarket running on the Bitcoin blockchain for leaking "confidential secrets, hollywood movies, software exploits and so on." Wikileaks or Darkleaks. Their introductory post describes Darkleaks as some tool that can trade any kind of confidential....
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A new black market where informants can trade secrets for bitcoin has been announced this week. Darkleaks, masterminded by members of crypto-anarchist collective unSystem, will let users sell leaked data in an anonymous, trustless environment powered by bitcoin's blockchain. Amir Taaki, the project's systems developer, told CoinDesk he hopes to "[devalue] business models based around proprietary secrecy" by providing a financial, rather than moral, incentive for insiders to reveal information. History of radical schemes. The unSystem team has divided opinion with radical projects like the....
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....