#Wikileaks News

Bitcoin Lightning Payments Now Supported by WikiLeaks Shop

July 10, 2020 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Bitcoin

Bitcoin Lightning payments are now being accepted by the official WikiLeaks Shop – the online merchandise store of the international non-profit organization WikiLeaks that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. WikiLeaks Shop Introduces Support for Bitcoin Lightning Payments WikiLeaks Shop, the offshoot of WikiLeaks, a non-profit...

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Receives 50-Week Prison Sentence But US Extradition Is the Real Battle

May 6, 2019 by Alex Lielacher at Crime, News

High-profile information transparency advocate and co-founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been sentenced by a British court to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail conditions after he was forced to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in which he has been seeking refuge since 2012. This according to a report by...

Iceland: Debit Card Company Fined $9.85 Million for Blocking WikiLeaks Payment

April 30, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Finance, News, Tech

Iceland-based debit and credit card company Valitor has been ordered to pay $9.85 million (1.2 billion Icelandic Krona) for illegally blocking payments to WikiLeaks in 2010, reports local media outlet The Reykjavik Grapevine, April 25, 2019. A Multi-Year Legal Battle Comes to Closure Visa and Mastercard’s partner company in Iceland,...

Julian Assange, Wikileaks Editor and Crypto Supporter, Arrested In London

April 11, 2019 by Neil at Bitcoin, Development, News, Regulation

There are few figures in the world more controversial than Julian Assange, the 47-year-old Australian computer programmer and Wikileaks editor. Assange has been simultaneously praised and villainized as a hero of transparency and privacy after compromising government secrets. In a move that many thought would come sooner, Assange has finally...

Cambridge Analytica Executive Donated Cryptocurrency to WikiLeaks and Met with Julian Assange

June 9, 2018 by Cindy Huynh at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News, Regulation

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...

Litecoin Update: WikiLeaks, Lee Joins DMG Blockchain and Collaboration With TokenPay

April 28, 2018 by Alex Lielacher at Altcoins, Business, News

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...

Bitcoin Platform Coinbase Bans WikiLeaks’ Account

April 24, 2018 by Pratik Makadiya at Bitcoin, Business, Commentary, Finance, News

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...

WikiLeaks Bitcoin Donations Skyrocket: Assange Thanks U.S. Government

October 17, 2017 by Michael Scott at Bitcoin, Commentary, News

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.”...

WikiLeaks Accepts Zcash: Why It Is Raising Eyebrows

August 9, 2017 by Michael Scott at Altcoins, News

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...

And He is Alive! WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Proves Video is Live with Bitcoin’s Blockchain

January 12, 2017 by Christoph Bergmann at Bitcoin, Commentary, News

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...