Julian Assange Proves He’s Alive Using The Bitcoin Blockchain
Julian Assange used the Bitcoin Blockchain to prove that he’s alive and well, being the first person to provide a blockchain-based “proof of life.” Assange is Alive and Well, Says Bitcoin. After being presumed dead by several internet fans, Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of the WikiLeaks organization, decided to prove his well-being by reading out block #447506 and its hash, which is a string of numbers and letters that are unique to that specific block and impossible to predict. The block number and its hash were read out during a during a live feed on a Reddit AMA (Ask me Anything)....
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Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, read yesterday the bitcoin blockchain hash of block 447506 during a recorded video. At the time, it represented the most recent bitcoin block published to the blockchain. Experts contend this is proof that Mr. Assange is alive – or at least that the video, in which the whistleblower appears uncoerced, was....
Julian Assange added a bit more to his history-making today by being the first known person to use bitcoin’s public blockchain as proof of life. Responding to calls for evidence that the Wikileaks founder is safe and sound in a Reddit Ask Me Anything sessions with answers provided in a live twitch.tv feed, Assange stated: “I have to say it is a little bit silly, not in relation to us being under pressure, we have been under pressure, but we’re very good at resisting pressure, but, in relation to whether I’m alive, or kidnapped, actually, it is a bit silly. If you look at people like John....
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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....