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By Victor Ugochukwu
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After about seven years of evading the radar of the international enforcement agents and possible extradition to the United States, the famous whistleblower Julian Assange…
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Julian Assange who is famously known for the release of classified documents which cast the then US Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton in a bad light and possibly led…
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Julian has been in hiding and has sought Asylum status in Ecuador by taking refuge in her embassy running for a period of seven years citing extradition against a sexual assault…
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The unfolding of this arrest event is however not entirely unrelated to the cryptocurrency and blockchain community especially as Wikileaks, an international whistleblower…
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Wikileak in 2011 took to Twitter announcing it will start accepting donations in bitcoin, publishing its wallet which was to receive as much 4000 bitcoins from anonymous…
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While this came as a no-brainer, especially as many activists like Assange or even the rogue NSA operative Edward Snowden, claimed there is a coordinated attempt by central…
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“Bitcoin is an extremely important innovation, but not in the way most people think. Bitcoin's real innovation is a globally verifiable proof of publishing at a certain time.
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Fast forward to 2019 more than a decade after Bitcoin was released, Vitalik also stated how important cryptocurrencies and the blockchain are to societal improvement citing a…
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“You could argue that [Satoshi] was just trying to make a timestamp, but there are lots of ways to make a timestamp.
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Vitalik's statement above lends credence to Assange's claim as far back as 2011 when Wikileaks started accepting donation in bitcoin.
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As at press time, Wikileaks’ bitcoin wallet states zero balance and showing a total of 4042.852 bitcoins ever received into the wallet.
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