• Assange as part of the Cypherpunks movement
• Bet against the establishment
• Bitcoin to protect freedom of the press
BTCAmsterdam, the European counterpart to the major annual Bitcoin conferences in Miami, took place in mid-October. In addition to topics such as inflation or the energy crisis and their implications for Bitcoin, the “Julian Assange case” was also on the agenda. His wife, Stella Assange, spoke on the Main Stage entitled “Free Assange” and then, along with his brother Gabriel Shipton, answered questions from attendees in a Q&A session entitled “Untold Story”.
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The Wikileaks founder is to be extradited to the United States, where he faces 175 years in prison or even the death penalty. His brother last visited him in July 2022 in Belmarsh maximum security prison, where he has been imprisoned for four years. He reports that his brother has suffered massive mental and physical illnesses over the past 13 years, during which he has always been imprisoned in one way or another. But what do Wikileaks or Julian Assange’s imprisonment have to do with Bitcoin?
Wikileaks and Bitcoin
The brother of the Wikileaks founder, Gabriel Shipton, explained the connections in an interview with BTC-ECHO at the BTCAmsterdam: Julian Assange connects Bitcoin with a common history, because he was part of the Cypherpunks movement at the end of the 1990s, which among other things also “Proof-of Work” inventor Adam Buck, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden or Twitter founder Jack Dorsey belonged. The aim of the Cypherpunks was to establish data protection through encryption in electronic data processing. They spread the crypto codes in a variety of ways and engaged in the so-called “Crypto Wars” with the US government, which had declared cryptography to be a military technology.
After the release of the US military’s secret documents on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US authorities blocked all of Wikileaks’ accounts and thus denied access to the banking system, including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. According to Julian Assange’s brother, Wikileaks could only have survived thanks to Bitcoin. This hits exactly the core of the Bitcoin application: namely to protect the freedom of the press despite the intervention of a state or an institution.
This is why he also goes to Bitcoin conferences, Gabriel Shipton said. He sees it as his job to remind the Bitcoin community of their own power. Because what happened to Julian Assange could affect anyone who opposes the system. “Bitcoin itself is a big bet against the establishment. By protecting it and breaking it out of jail, bitcoiners are showing the world you shouldn’t mess with us,” he urged the bitcoin community.
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