Heres What He Believes About Bitcoin
Free speech champions across the world celebrated earlier this week as Julian Assange founder of WikiLeaks was finally released from a UK prison after five years behind bars.
During his more than decade-long legal battle to escape persecution from multiple national governments, Assange often leaned on crypto to drive global fundraising campaigns to secure his freedom. A newly resurfaced video from years before Assanges arrest shows him praising cryptocurrencies as a powerful tool for freedom.
What Julian Assange Thinks of Bitcoin
In the September 2014 clip shared by MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor, Assange calls Bitcoin the most interesting intellectual development on the internet since the networks inception in 2009.
A lot of people who have heard about Bitcoin dont really understand it, he said at the time. It is a currency thats cryptographically backed and multi-jurisdictional, which means its very hard for any one power groupto start turning it into a rent-seeking apparatus.
Years after this speech, countries like El Salvador and companies like Strike have begun leveraging Bitcoin as a tool for sending and receiving cheap, instant global remittances.
Moreover, Bitcoin and crypto have become leading tools for easily funding global humanitarian movements, including Ukraines military defense against Russia or Israels support for victims of Hamas.
Yet this isnt even one of Bitcoins primary benefits, according to Assange. One of the networks best qualities, he said, is its ability to defend itself or the people who use it against even the full might of a superpower.
Bitcoin Breaking Orwells Dictum
The other underlying basic technology is proof of publication at a particular time, he continued. With Bitcoins blockchain operating a ledger of true events that cannot be altered, he argued that the network can break Orwells dictum arguing that he who controls the present controls the past.
Indeed, Bitcoin has been used repeatedly as a tool for bypassing sanctions placed by national governments for better or for worse. In 2022, the Canadian Trucker convoy protesting nationwide vaccine mandates turned to Bitcoin to raise funds when traditional payment platforms like GoFundMe blocked donations.
Assange himself turned to crypto for funding after being jailed in the United Kingdom, including over $54 million in ETH through AssangeDAO.
Thats the big expansion were about to see in Bitcoin it all derives form this basic premise, concluded Assange. You can prove a particular contract happened at a particular time, globally.
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