Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks has been a Bitcoin follower for a long time. It would nevertheless be since his arrest that the donations would have accumulated, now representing several million dollars.
The arrest of the Wikileaks founder has recently made headlines in the press. Since several donations have accumulated, completing the Bitcoinsalready garnered by WikiLeaks.
At least $ 22 million in donations
In 2016, donations received were already $ 22 million. Since its inception with the cybermonnaie, Wikileaks has accumulated a total of 4,054 bitcoins. With the current conversion rate, this equates to $ 46.2 million.
With the arrest of the founder, last April, a donation of 12 bitcoins would have been made to a support account of Assange, currently representing nearly 130,000 dollars.
Still, it is impossible to know if Wikileaks is still in possession of these more than 4,000 bitcoins, which could indeed have been sold in part, especially to cover the cost of lawyers for example.
Wikileaks and Bitcoin, a story that has been going on for several years
In 2017, Julian Assange sent a tweet to the US government. He thanked him for instigating bank payment companies to ban Wikileaks. This illegal banking blockade had indeed encouraged him to invest in Bitcoin, allowing him to obtain a return higher than 50 000 %.
Thus, if we go back the story between Wikileaks and Bitcoin, we discover that everything started in 2010, and that from 2011 donations in Bitcoins were receivable by Wikileaks, which also launched a call for financial support, in Bitcoin.
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