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The Bitcoin Historian

21 تغريدة Jun 14, 2024

Why Julian Assange Is A #Bitcoin Legend
Raised 4,000+ BTC to break a banking blockade
Revealed US war crimes and global corruption
HODL'ed $BTC since it was just $10
A thread.

1/ Julian became infamous as a fearless journalist with his pioneering media organization @WikiLeaks.
There, Julian revealed U.S. atrocities in the Middle East
He destroyed the credibility of the "War on Terror."

2/ In retaliation, Wikileaks was massively censored by global governments.
PayPal, Visa, and Swiss Bank all froze their money.
To Julian, truth and justice were at stake ‼️

3/ But these secretive governments didn't know they were messing with a cypherpunk.
A hacker since his teens, Julian had even infiltrated the U.S. Department of Defense.
Here he is as a teen at an anti-nuclear protest ✨

4/ Julian was also a world-class cryptographer
He invented Rubberhose, a crypto protocol that made it impossible for activists to decrypt their secrets…
Even under torture…

5/ #Bitcoin users rallied to Julian's support.
They knew $BTC donations couldn't be censored
At $0.30, a young Amir Taaki offered his services ✊

6/ One notable developer, though, was against the idea – Satoshi Nakamoto
"Don't bring it on," the creator of #Bitcoin said.
He feared it was too fragile to survive an assault 🤯

7/ A week later, PC World published the 1st major news story about #Bitcoin.
It fueled rumors WikiLeaks would accept $BTC
Satoshi left the project for good 😢

8/ Soon, Wikileaks had no options left for fundraising
On June 14, 2011, it posted a #Bitcoin address online.
The blockade against it was instantly broken 💫

9/ Ever since, 4,100 $BTC has been sent to WikiLeaks
This war chest is $250,000,000 at current prices.
A 233,000% gain – just by holding #Bitcoin, WikiLeaks outperformed all of Wall Street 🤣

10/ Behind the scenes, Julian was a real evangelist
Later in 2011, he arranged a secret meeting with Google’s CEO where they talked about #Bitcoin
Here’s Eric Schmidt orange pilling Silicon Valley a few years later when $BTC was $600

11/ By 2014, Julian was praising #Bitcoin as the "most exciting development on the internet."
He believed it couldn’t be stopped by governments
He saw as a new form of protest 🤯

12/ For his work, Julian has been given many awards
These include some of the top prizes for journalism
Here he is holding up the Sydney Peace Foundation's gold medal for human rights 🧡

13/ Yet, the attacks by global governments continued
In 2012, Julian was granted political asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
He lived there for years before his arrest in 2019 😠

14/ Ever since, the #Bitcoin WikiLeaks raised has come to his aid.
In 2017, Julian formally thanked the US government for the blockade.
WikiLeaks’ $BTC investment was up 50,000%

15/ Support for Julian remains strong in #Bitcoin.
Hundreds of WikiLeaks cables are stored on Bitcoin, making them completely uncensorable.
There’s even a portrait of Julian in block #786501 🧡

16/ Today, Julian continues his fight
They are trying to extradite him to America
He remains in confinement in one of the worst high security prisons in Britain 😡