Tag: Wikileaks

Brittany Kaiser, a Cambridge Analytica senior director supposedly visited Julian Assange in February 2017 to discuss the U.S. election. Kaiser also donated cryptocurrencies to WikiLeaks, an organization that she calls “her favorite charity.” Assange Denies Cambridge Analytica Meeting According to The Guardian, the visit and donation is new information being passed to parliamentary inquiries in the U.K. and U.S. Although…

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Since its creation in 2011, Litecoin has consistently been among the top cryptocurrencies regarding market capitalization as well as user adoption. In recent months, the Litecoin foundation, headed by its outspoken Litecoin creator Charlie Lee, has been working to boost merchant adoption of the popular digital currency. WikiLeaks and Wirex Adoption Independent media company WikiLeaks announced it would start accepting…

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Following a recent move by Coinbase, the most popular bitcoin exchange in the US, WikiLeaks’ account will be discontinued without notice as announced on April 21. In a tweet from the WikiLeaks shop’s official account on April 21, 2018, it was announced that the bitcoin exchange, Coinbase, had to discontinue the payment processing services without any prior notice or genuine…

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In his book, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, the international non-profit organization that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources, argues that as “entire societies move online, mass surveillance programs are being deployed globally.” The underlying theme of his message involves encryption, the notion…

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In a move viewed as highly questionable within some cryptocurrency and libertarian circles, non-profit media group WikiLeaks, founded in 2006 by Australian computer programmer Julian Assange announced that it is now accepting donations via the privacy-centric cryptocurrency zcash. WikiLeaks recently revealed on Twitter its intent to utilize this new payment option. This makes zcash the third cryptocurrency the organization is…

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange encounters the questions of fans and critics in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) held on January 10. To eliminate the ongoing rumors, that he is dead, missing or kidnapped, he read out the hash of the latest Bitcoin block in a video. The Australian Julian Assange is famous for having founded the whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks. Since…

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