A DAO Created to Free Julian Assange Has Raised $7.5 Million in Ethereum
A group of cypherpunks recently initiated a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) in order to try and free the incarcerated Wikileaks founder and activist Julian Assange. So far, the DAO has raised $7.5 million in ether and the funds will be used to help with Assange’s legal fees and raise public awareness about his case. Assangedao Raises Nearly $6 Million to Help Fund Julian Assange’s Legal Efforts and Shine a Light on the Systemic Failure of Our Justice Systems. A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) has been created that aims to help Julian Assange gain....
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In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, AssangeDAO’s core members explain how a decentralized autonomous organization could obtain the release of Julian Assange. “DAOs, in a way, they are are a very powerful token-based coordination mechanism that any person now can wield outside of the legacy financial system,” said Silke Noa, core member of AssangeDAO, which recently raised $53 million in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. According to Noa, the fundraising campaign was “a huge success” that showed the power a decentralized autonomous organization can have in impacting....
Donations to support Julian Assange’s fight for freedom have been pouring in over the weekend. A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) set up to support the liberation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from prison has raised 12,569 ETH or around $38.8 million at current prices.Assange is currently fighting extradition to the United States following a court ruling in December that overruled a British court ruling barring extradition. He is currently locked up in a London prison where he has been since 2019. Donations started rolling in on Feb. 4 according to JuiceBox, the community....
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.
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,....